Re: [RFC PATCH 3/7] doc: dt: mtd: partition: add on-flash format binding

[David Gibson]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 10:33:30PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 5 December 2015 at 12:39, Jonas Gorski <jogo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Brian Norris
> > <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> +
> >> +Examples:
> >> +
> >> +flash@0 {
> >> +       partitions {
> >> +               compatible = "google,fmap";
> >> +       };
> >> +};
> >
> > I wonder if this wouldn't be better served in a separate binding doc
> > with its compatible name as the filename, like we do with
> > driver^Whardware blocks, especially if we want to add more parsers.
> 
> 
> I find that *very* counter productive for bindings that go to the same
> node. You have a description of a node, and then suddenly there you
> have another file with another description of the same node. Totally
> awesome.

I can't actually work out from that if you're agreeing with the
original post or the first reply.

> Also how do you plan to write partitioning schemes with parameters
> like with non-zero offset of the partition table.

Presumably with properties in the patitions node.  Not seeing the
problem here.

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