This patch makes MTD dynamic partitioning more flexible by removing
overlap checks for dynamic partitions. I don't see any  particular
reason why overlapping dynamic partitions should be prohibited while
static partitions are allowed to overlap freely.

The checks previously had an off-by-one error, where 'end' should be
one less than what it is currently set at, and adding partitions out of
increasing order will fail. Disabling the checks resolves this issue.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

This patch makes a sysfs variable called 'offset' on each partition
which contains the offset in bytes from the beginning of the master
device that the partition starts.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

For many use cases, it helps to have a device node for the entire
MTD device as well as device nodes for the individual partitions.
For example, this allows querying the entire device's properties.
A common idiom is to create an additional partition which spans
over the whole device.

This patch makes a config option, CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER,
which makes the master partition present even when the device is
partitioned. This isn't turned on by default since it presents
a backwards-incompatible device numbering.

The patch also makes the parent of a partition device be the master,
if the config flag is set, now that the master is a full device.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.

Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead.  Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device.  It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

With the introduction of mtd_block_isreserved(), it's now possible
to fix the bad and reserved block distribution exposed by ecc_stats,
instead of accounting all the bad or reserved blocks as 'bad'.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

In addition to mtd_block_isbad(), which checks if a block is bad or
reserved, it's needed to check if a block is reserved only (but not
bad). This commit adds an MTD interface for it, in a similar fashion to
mtd_block_isbad().

While here, fix mtd_block_isbad() so the out-of-bounds checking is done
before the callback check.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

register_mtd_parser never fails; hence make it return void.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

deregister_mtd_parser never fails; hence make it return void.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

This allows to drop a few casts.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>