From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-mtd Mailing List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Viktor Rosendahl <Viktor.Rosendahl@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtdoops: allow MTD selection by name
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:28:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234877293.5312.32.camel@dax.rpnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4999928F.1010304@nokia.com>
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 18:21 +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> MTD's have both an index number and a name. Formerly,
> the MTD selected for mtdoops was done only by index
> number. With this patch, a name can be used instead.
>
> For example, the kernel command line:
>
> console=ttyMTD5
>
> selects MTD 5 for mtdoops. But now this is also possible:
>
> console=ttyMTD,log
>
> which selects the MTD named "log" for mtdoops.
> This has the advantage that partitions can be added or
> removed that would affect the MTD index number but not the
> name, without having to then change the kernel command line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
--
Richard Purdie
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-17 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-16 16:21 [PATCH] mtdoops: allow MTD selection by name Adrian Hunter
2009-02-17 12:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-05 10:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-02-17 13:28 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
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