[U-Boot] [PATCH 14/30] dm: part: Convert partition API use to linker lists

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 07:16:43PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:

> We can use linker lists instead of explicitly declaring each function.
> This makes the code shorter by avoiding switch() statements and lots of
> header file declarations.
> 
> While this does clean up the code it introduces a few code issues with SPL.
> SPL never needs to print partition information since this all happens from
> commands. SPL mostly doesn't need to obtain information about a partition
> either, except in a few cases. Add these cases so that the code will be
> dropped from each partition driver when not needed. This avoids code bloat.
> 
> I think this is still a win, since it is not a bad thing to be explicit
> about which features are used in SPL. But others may like to weigh in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Since there's a question here:

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

-- 
Tom
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