On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 3:34 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 11:53:15AM -0600, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:

quoted

 patternProperties:
   "^partitions(-boot[12]|-gp[14])?$":
-    $ref: /schemas/mtd/partitions/partitions.yaml
+    type: object
+    additionalProperties: true

-    patternProperties:
-      "^partition@[0-9a-f]+$":
-        $ref: /schemas/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml
-
-        properties:
-          reg:
-            description: Must be multiple of 512 as it's converted
-              internally from bytes to SECTOR_SIZE (512 bytes)
-
-        required:
-          - reg
-
-        unevaluatedProperties: false
+    properties:
+      compatible:
+        contains:
+          const: fixed-partitions

 required:
   - compatible

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd.yaml
index bbb56216a4e2..e56dba83f00a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd.yaml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ properties:
     deprecated: true

   partitions:
-    $ref: /schemas/mtd/partitions/partitions.yaml
+    type: object

I think you need explicit, since we require it for incomplete nodes:

additionalProperties: true

I put what the tools required me to put. :) We only require it when
properties get defined because that's the case we don't know if the
schema is *all* properties or not.

Rob