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From: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tnt.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Embedded Linux PPC list <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: kernel option "Command line partition table parsing"
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:46:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E164A6.8060502@246tNt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0406290821150.19485@localhost.localdomain>


Robert P. J. Day wrote:

 >
 > i'm intrigued by the above kernel option.  currently, i define my
 > MTD partitions in drivers/mtd/maps/rpxlite.c, using structs
 > map_info, mtd_info, etc., and calling the appropriate routines,
 > which works just fine.
 >
 > will this kernel option actually let me define the basic MTD
 > partitions completely from the kernel command line without messing
 > with rpxlite.c?  or am i misreading the purpose of this option?

I'd suggest having a look at the comment on top of

drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c

But I'm not sure if rpxlite.c . From what I see, it may require to add
a "probe" to look at the command line. Someone ?


Sylvain Munaut


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-29 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-29 12:24 kernel option "Command line partition table parsing" Robert P. J. Day
2004-06-29 12:46 ` Sylvain Munaut [this message]
2004-06-29 14:37   ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-29 14:45     ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-06-29 16:32     ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-29 12:57 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-29 13:02   ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-06-29 14:15     ` Marius Groeger

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