From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Mika Korhonen <ext-mika.2.korhonen@nokia.com>
Cc: vimal.newwork@gmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
adrian.hunter@nokia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] MTD OneNAND OMAP2/3: allow giving partition layout as module parameter
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:04:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257926669.21596.884.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257841355-5773-2-git-send-email-ext-mika.2.korhonen@nokia.com>
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:22 +0200, Mika Korhonen wrote:
> Add module parameter "parts" to omap2-onenand driver. Parameter format is
> the same as for cmdlinepart except mtd-id must not be specified - it
> gets prepended by the driver, i.e.: parts=<partdef>[,<partdef>]*
>
> This allows one to repartition the OneNAND chip and is useful for flashing
> applications that do the partitioning from scratch or want to backup and
> update the partitioning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Korhonen <ext-mika.2.korhonen@nokia.com>
Re-partitioning should really be an /dev/mtd0 ioctl, not a driver module
parameter. The partitioning in the mtd subsystem is bad, and needs some
re-work as well.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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2009-11-10 8:22 [PATCH v2 0/1] MTD OneNAND OMAP2/3: allow giving partition layout as module parameter Mika Korhonen
2009-11-10 8:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Mika Korhonen
2009-11-11 8:04 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
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