NAND partition names in DTS must be named "partition"?
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Sep 22 08:36:25 EST 2009
Matthew L. Creech wrote:
> I upgraded from 2.6.29 to 2.6.31, and the kernel no longer recognized
> the partitions embedded within my DTS file. I had to revert this
> change:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4b08e149c0e02e97ec49c2a31d14a0d3a02f8074
>
> in order to boot. This code looks like it expects all partitions to
> be named "partition", otherwise they're just skipped. Is there some
> peculiarity in my setup that makes this not work, or is it a general
> problem? I see no major differences between my DTS file and the
> stardard "mpc8313erdb.dts".
It looks like mpc8313erdb.dts needs to be updated.
That, and Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt, which
still says, "Each node's name represents the name of the corresponding
partition of the flash device," and has examples whose names are not
"partition". :-P
-Scott
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