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.
+
+What:          /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/oobavail
+Date:          April 2018
+KernelVersion: 4.16
+Contact:       linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+               Number of bytes available for a client to place data into
+               the out of band area.
 
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(oobsize, S_IRUGO, mtd_oobsize_show, NULL);
 
+static ssize_t mtd_oobavail_show(struct device *dev,
+                                struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+       struct mtd_info *mtd = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+       return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n", mtd->oobavail);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(oobavail, S_IRUGO, mtd_oobavail_show, NULL);
+
 static ssize_t mtd_numeraseregions_show(struct device *dev,
                struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
        &dev_attr_writesize.attr,
        &dev_attr_subpagesize.attr,
        &dev_attr_oobsize.attr,
+       &dev_attr_oobavail.attr,
        &dev_attr_numeraseregions.attr,
        &dev_attr_name.attr,
        &dev_attr_ecc_strength.attr,