From: Rafał Miłecki Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:11:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Documentation: ABI: mtd: describe "offset" more precisely X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d84120b5ba61912a5333f5fe2c4e8f35ef9514f;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git Documentation: ABI: mtd: describe "offset" more precisely So far Linux supported only two levels of MTD devices so we didn't need a very precise description for this sysfs file. With commit 97519dc52b44a ("mtd: partitions: add support for subpartitions") there is support for a tree structure so we should have more precise description. Using "parent" and "flash device" makes it more accurate. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Signed-off-by: Brian Norris --- diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd index 3b5c3bca9186..f34e592301d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd @@ -229,6 +229,6 @@ KernelVersion: 4.1 Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Description: For a partition, the offset of that partition from the start - of the master device in bytes. This attribute is absent on - main devices, so it can be used to distinguish between - partitions and devices that aren't partitions. + of the parent (another partition or a flash device) in bytes. + This attribute is absent on flash devices, so it can be used + to distinguish them from partitions.