[PATCH v4 0/2] mtd: spi: nor: force mtd name to "nor%d"

[Marek Vasut]

On 9/22/21 9:46 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 09:24:24PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> 
>> I am talking about using nor%d in MTDIDS in U-Boot UBI code to look up from
>> which device to attach UBI in U-Boot.
> 
> OK, so are we not able to pass in the correct name now?  Or just worried
> about old environment and new U-Boot?

Say you have the following in board config:

CONFIG_MTDIDS_DEFAULT="nor0=ff705000.spi.0"
CONFIG_MTDPARTS_DEFAULT="mtdparts=ff705000.spi.0:-(fs);"

Then run "=> ubi part fs", which will fail to find nor0, because now 
that nor0 is called something else. That is what this series tries to fix.