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

[Stephen Warren]

On 02/14/2016 07:16 PM, 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.

This patch changes the order in which partition types are detected,
which matters when multiple partition types match (a GPT often/always
has a protective MBR too). Consequently, this breaks GPT support.

By hacking around this (turning off DOS partition support), and fixing
the PCIe issue I mentioned elsewhere, test/py seems to work for me with
this series applied.