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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,state.rst6
-rw-r--r--common/state/backend_storage.c14
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,state.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,state.rst
index e9daa65f1a..00fb592614 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,state.rst
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,state.rst
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ Optional properties:
e.g. ``hmac(sha256)``. Only used for ``raw``.
* ``backend-stridesize``: Maximum size per copy of the data. Only important for
non-MTD devices
-* ``backend-storage-type``: Type of the storage. This has two options at the
- moment. For MTD with erasing the correct type is ``circular``. For all other
- devices and files, ``direct`` is the needed type.
+* ``backend-storage-type``: Normally the correct storage type is detected auto-
+ matically. The circular backend supports the option ``noncircular`` to fall
+ back to an old storage format.
Variable nodes
--------------
diff --git a/common/state/backend_storage.c b/common/state/backend_storage.c
index f9e8151670..036204c188 100644
--- a/common/state/backend_storage.c
+++ b/common/state/backend_storage.c
@@ -376,13 +376,15 @@ int state_storage_init(struct state *state, const char *path,
ret = mtd_get_meminfo(path, &meminfo);
if (!ret && !(meminfo.flags & MTD_NO_ERASE)) {
- bool circular = true;
- if (!storagetype) {
- circular = false;
- } else if (strcmp(storagetype, "circular")) {
- dev_warn(storage->dev, "Unknown storagetype '%s', falling back to old format circular storage type.\n",
- storagetype);
+ bool circular;
+ if (!storagetype || !strcmp(storagetype, "circular")) {
+ circular = true;
+ } else if (!strcmp(storagetype, "noncircular")) {
+ dev_warn(storage->dev, "using old format circular storage type.\n");
circular = false;
+ } else {
+ dev_warn(storage->dev, "unknown storage type '%s'\n", storagetype);
+ return -EINVAL;
}
return state_storage_mtd_buckets_init(storage, &meminfo, circular);
} else {