On Thu,  6 Sep 2018 09:08:54 +0200
Miquel Raynal <miquel.ray...@bootlin.com> wrote:

> The 'mtdparts' command is not needed anymore. While the environment
> variable is still valid (and useful, along with the 'mtdids' one), the
> command has been replaced by 'mtd' which is much more close to the MTD
> stack and do not add its own specific glue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.ray...@bootlin.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>
> ---
>  cmd/Kconfig | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/cmd/Kconfig b/cmd/Kconfig
> index f82addca0a..51dd058128 100644
> --- a/cmd/Kconfig
> +++ b/cmd/Kconfig
> @@ -1680,7 +1680,11 @@ config CMD_MTDPARTS
>       bool "MTD partition support"
>       select MTD_DEVICE if (CMD_NAND || NAND)
>       help
> -       MTD partition support
> +       MTD partitioning tool support.
> +       It is strongly encouraged to avoid using this command
> +       anymore. One can still declare the partitions in the
> +       mtdparts environment variable but better use the MTD stack
> +       and the mtd command instead than this one.

Well, that's only working if people stop using nand,onenand,sf,...
commands in favor the mtd ones, otherwise they still need mtdparts,
unfortunately :-(.

I guess a long term goal could be to define aliases between flash
specific commands and the generic mtd ones so that we can get rid of
cmd/<flashcmd>.c drivers.

Regards,

Boris
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