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From: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: "Cyrille Pitchen" <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: ABI: mtd: describe "offset" more precisely
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 13:11:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170625111154.14022-1-zajec5@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

So far Linux supported only two levels of MTD devices so we didn't need
a very precise description for this sysfs file. With commit
97519dc52b44a ("mtd: partitions: add support for subpartitions") there
is support for a tree structure so we should have more precise
description. Using "parent" and "flash device" makes it more accurate.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
index 3b5c3bca9186..f34e592301d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
@@ -229,6 +229,6 @@ KernelVersion:	4.1
 Contact:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
 Description:
 		For a partition, the offset of that partition from the start
-		of the master device in bytes. This attribute is absent on
-		main devices, so it can be used to distinguish between
-		partitions and devices that aren't partitions.
+		of the parent (another partition or a flash device) in bytes.
+		This attribute is absent on flash devices, so it can be used
+		to distinguish them from partitions.
-- 
2.11.0

             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-25 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-25 11:11 Rafał Miłecki [this message]
2017-07-13 17:56 ` Brian Norris

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