/*
* Flash partitions described by the OF (or flattened) device tree
*
* Copyright © 2006 MontaVista Software Inc.
* Author: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
* Revised to handle newer style flash binding by:
* Copyright © 2007 David Gibson, IBM Corporation.
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
* Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
* option) any later version.
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
int __devinit of_mtd_parse_partitions(struct device *dev,
struct device_node *node,
struct mtd_partition **pparts)
{
const char *partname;
struct device_node *pp;
int nr_parts, i;
/* First count the subnodes */
pp = NULL;
nr_parts = 0;
while ((pp = of_get_next_child(node, pp)))
nr_parts++;
if (nr_parts == 0)
return 0;
*pparts = kzalloc(nr_parts * sizeof(**pparts), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!*pparts)
return -ENOMEM;
i = 0;
while ((pp = of_get_next_child(node, pp))) {
const __be32 *reg;
int len;
reg = of_get_property(pp, "reg", &len);
if (!reg) {
nr_parts--;
continue;
}
(*pparts)[i].offset = be32_to_cpu(reg[0]);
(*pparts)[i].size = be32_to_cpu(reg[1]);
partname = of_get_property(pp, "label", &len);
if (!partname)
partname = of_get_property(pp, "name", &len);
(*pparts)[i].name = (char *)partname;
if (of_get_property(pp, "read-only", &len))
(*pparts)[i].mask_flags = MTD_WRITEABLE;
i++;
if (!i) {
of_node_put(pp);
dev_err(dev, "No valid partition found on %s\n", node->full_name);
kfree(*pparts);
*pparts = NULL;
return -EINVAL;
return nr_parts;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_mtd_parse_partitions);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");