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    mtd: be silent when mtd partition parser cannot be found · 7c802fbd
    Artem Bityutskiy authored
    Currently when we register partitions in 'parse_mtd_partitions()' we accept the
    list of parsers we should try. And if one of the parsers was not found we print
    a message. Well, first of all this whole idea is bad - look at how many
    'part_probes' and 'part_probe_types' variables we have - nearly every driver
    defines one. Instead, we should just go through all registered parsers all the
    time. But this needs to be worked on separately.
    
    This patch makes life of MTD partitions' users a bit simpler and allows them to
    safely request parsers which have not been registered -
    'parse_mtd_partitions()' will not print a "not available" message in this
    case.
    
    The point is that drivers do not have to do things like this any longer:
    
    static const char *part_probe_types[] = { "cmdlinepart", "RedBoot",
                                             "afs",
                                             NULL };
    
    but can simply do like this:
    
    static const char *part_probe_types[] = { "cmdlinepart", "RedBoot", "afs", NULL };
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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