Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:16:02PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > 	platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the
> > driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device
> > tables are for.
> 
> To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning
> and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ...

With OF we do partitioning and labling via drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.

Though, so far there is no support for OF partitions in the m25p80
driver. I think we'd better put the OF partitions probing into
parse_mtd_partitions(), and avoid calling of_mtd_parse_partitons()
directly...

Thanks,

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