linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Rafał Miłecki 1a0915be19 mtd: partitions: add support for partition parsers
Some devices have partitions that are kind of containers with extra
subpartitions / volumes instead of e.g. a simple filesystem data. To
support such cases we need to first create normal flash device
partitions and then take care of these special ones.

It's very common case for home routers. Depending on the vendor there
are formats like TRX, Seama, TP-Link, WRGG & more. All of them are used
to embed few partitions into a single one / single firmware file.

Ideally all vendors would use some well documented / standardized format
like UBI (and some probably start doing so), but there are still
countless devices on the market using these poor vendor specific
formats.

This patch extends MTD subsystem by allowing to specify list of parsers
that should be tried for a given partition. Supporting such poor formats
is highly unlikely to be the top priority so these changes try to
minimize maintenance cost to the minimum. It reuses existing code for
these new parsers and just adds a one property and one new function.

This implementation requires setting partition parsers in a flash
parser. A proper change of bcm47xxpart will follow and in the future we
will hopefully also find a solution for doing it with ofpart
("fixed-partitions").

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
2017-06-22 13:13:09 -07:00
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acpi More ACPI updates for v4.12-rc1 2017-05-10 09:35:42 -07:00
asm-generic Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12 2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
clocksource clocksource: arm_arch_timer: add structs to describe MMIO timer 2017-04-19 16:11:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
drm mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
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keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Fix bug when registering redist iodevs 2017-05-18 11:18:12 +02:00
linux mtd: partitions: add support for partition parsers 2017-06-22 13:13:09 -07:00
math-emu
media [media] cec.h: merge cec-edid.h into cec.h 2017-04-19 06:53:18 -03:00
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net net: x25: fix one potential use-after-free issue 2017-05-18 10:05:40 -04:00
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rdma smc_diag.h: fix include from userland 2017-05-11 00:18:39 +09:00
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sound ASoC: Updates for v4.12 2017-05-02 08:25:25 +02:00
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