for your particular device. It won't happen automatically. The
'armflash' map driver (CONFIG_MTD_ARMFLASH) does this, for example.
+config MTD_OF_PARTS
+ tristate "Flash partition map based on OF description"
+ depends on PPC_OF && MTD_PARTITIONS
+ help
+ This provides a partition parsing function which derives
+ the partition map from the children of the flash node,
+ as described in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt.
+
+config MTD_AR7_PARTS
+ tristate "TI AR7 partitioning support"
+ depends on MTD_PARTITIONS
+ ---help---
+ TI AR7 partitioning support
+
comment "User Modules And Translation Layers"
config MTD_CHAR
This enables read only access to SmartMedia formatted NAND
flash. You can mount it with FAT file system.
+config MTD_OOPS
+ tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer"
+ depends on MTD
+ help
+ This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
+ buffer in a flash partition where it can be read back at some
+ later point.
+
+ To use, add console=ttyMTDx to the kernel command line,
+ where x is the MTD device number to use.
+
source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"