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-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c45
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mtd/mtd.h6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mtd/partitions.h2
3 files changed, 52 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index f3c9400..9af103b 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
+#include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
#include "mtdcore.h"
/*
@@ -428,6 +429,50 @@ out_error:
}
/**
+ * mtd_device_register - register an MTD device.
+ *
+ * @master: the MTD device to register
+ * @parts: the partitions to register - only valid if nr_parts > 0
+ * @nr_parts: the number of partitions in parts. If zero then the full MTD
+ * device is registered
+ *
+ * Register an MTD device with the system and optionally, a number of
+ * partitions. If nr_parts is 0 then the whole device is registered, otherwise
+ * only the partitions are registered. To register both the full device *and*
+ * the partitions, call mtd_device_register() twice, once with nr_parts == 0
+ * and once equal to the number of partitions.
+ */
+int mtd_device_register(struct mtd_info *master,
+ const struct mtd_partition *parts,
+ int nr_parts)
+{
+ return parts ? add_mtd_partitions(master, parts, nr_parts) :
+ add_mtd_device(master);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_device_register);
+
+/**
+ * mtd_device_unregister - unregister an existing MTD device.
+ *
+ * @master: the MTD device to unregister. This will unregister both the master
+ * and any partitions if registered.
+ */
+int mtd_device_unregister(struct mtd_info *master)
+{
+ int err;
+
+ err = del_mtd_partitions(master);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ if (!device_is_registered(&master->dev))
+ return 0;
+
+ return del_mtd_device(master);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_device_unregister);
+
+/**
* register_mtd_user - register a 'user' of MTD devices.
* @new: pointer to notifier info structure
*
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
index 06b489a..f4b0b27 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
@@ -325,6 +325,12 @@ static inline uint32_t mtd_mod_by_ws(uint64_t sz, struct mtd_info *mtd)
extern int add_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd);
extern int del_mtd_device (struct mtd_info *mtd);
+struct mtd_partition;
+
+extern int mtd_device_register(struct mtd_info *master,
+ const struct mtd_partition *parts,
+ int nr_parts);
+extern int mtd_device_unregister(struct mtd_info *master);
extern struct mtd_info *get_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd, int num);
extern int __get_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd);
extern void __put_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd);
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h b/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
index 4a0a8ba..998a6cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
* Partition definition structure:
*
* An array of struct partition is passed along with a MTD object to
- * add_mtd_partitions() to create them.
+ * mtd_device_register() to create them.
*
* For each partition, these fields are available:
* name: string that will be used to label the partition's MTD device.
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