From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 12/12] cmd: mtdparts: describe as legacy
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 11:57:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180906115757.49859925@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180906070854.9717-13-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:08:54 +0200
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
> The 'mtdparts' command is not needed anymore. While the environment
> variable is still valid (and useful, along with the 'mtdids' one), the
> command has been replaced by 'mtd' which is much more close to the MTD
> stack and do not add its own specific glue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
> ---
> cmd/Kconfig | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/cmd/Kconfig b/cmd/Kconfig
> index f82addca0a..51dd058128 100644
> --- a/cmd/Kconfig
> +++ b/cmd/Kconfig
> @@ -1680,7 +1680,11 @@ config CMD_MTDPARTS
> bool "MTD partition support"
> select MTD_DEVICE if (CMD_NAND || NAND)
> help
> - MTD partition support
> + MTD partitioning tool support.
> + It is strongly encouraged to avoid using this command
> + anymore. One can still declare the partitions in the
> + mtdparts environment variable but better use the MTD stack
> + and the mtd command instead than this one.
Well, that's only working if people stop using nand,onenand,sf,...
commands in favor the mtd ones, otherwise they still need mtdparts,
unfortunately :-(.
I guess a long term goal could be to define aliases between flash
specific commands and the generic mtd ones so that we can get rid of
cmd/<flashcmd>.c drivers.
Regards,
Boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-06 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 7:08 [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 00/12] SPI-NAND support Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 01/12] lib: strto: parse all lowercase metric prefixes in ustrtoul[l] Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 02/12] lib: strto: fix metric suffix parsing in strtoul[l] Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 03/12] cmd: mtdparts: accept spi-nand devices Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 04/12] cmd: mtdparts: remove mandatory 'mtdparts=' prefix Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 05/12] mtd: uclass: add probe function Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 06/12] mtd: uclass: add a generic 'mtdparts' parser Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 07/12] mtd: uclass: search for an equivalent MTD name with the mtdids Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 08/12] mtd: mtdpart: implement proper partition handling Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 09/12] cmd: mtd: add 'mtd' command Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 9:42 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 10/12] cmd: mtdparts: try to probe the MTD devices as a fallback Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 9:46 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 11/12] cmd: ubi: clean the partition handling Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 9:52 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-09-06 7:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 12/12] cmd: mtdparts: describe as legacy Miquel Raynal
2018-09-06 9:57 ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2018-09-06 7:15 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v7 00/12] SPI-NAND support Miquel Raynal
2018-09-20 14:06 ` Frieder Schrempf
2018-09-20 14:46 ` Jagan Teki
2018-09-20 14:59 ` Miquel Raynal
2018-09-20 15:22 ` Frieder Schrempf
2018-09-21 8:15 ` Jagan Teki
2018-09-21 8:25 ` Miquel Raynal
2018-09-26 15:14 ` Miquel Raynal
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