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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:05:09 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 24/24] mtd: drop CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:08:00 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:

> There is no point in compiling mtdparts.c only in certain
> circumstances. Whether MTD is needed and it will be built, or MTD is
> not needed and the file will be ignored.

You're overlooking the image size constraint. Some might want to have
MTD support without partitioning, and we shouldn't force them to pull
this code in if they don't need it.