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[U-Boot,v12,8/8] cmd: mtdparts: describe as legacy

Message ID 20180929105830.13530-9-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
State Superseded
Delegated to: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
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Series SPI-NAND support (third batch) | expand

Commit Message

Miquel Raynal Sept. 29, 2018, 10:58 a.m. UTC 
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command has been replaced by 'mtd' which is much more close to the MTD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>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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 cmd/Kconfig | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/cmd/Kconfig b/cmd/Kconfig
index 4deec0b238..12f3eabfab 100644
--- a/cmd/Kconfig
+++ b/cmd/Kconfig
@@ -1673,7 +1673,11 @@  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 along with 'sf', 'nand', 'onenand'. One can still
+	  declare the partitions in the mtdparts environment variable
+	  but better use the MTD stack and the 'mtd' command instead.
 
 config MTDIDS_DEFAULT
 	string "Default MTD IDs"