From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd Mailing List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>,
Viktor Rosendahl <Viktor.Rosendahl@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtdoops: allow MTD selection by name
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:27:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236248870.4261.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234872527.17790.259.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 14:08 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 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: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
David, would you please push this patch ?
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-05 10:27 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 [this message]
2009-02-17 13:28 ` Richard Purdie
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