From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QWWXe-0006hC-A6 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:32:39 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719D920671 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:32:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.2.11.198] (mail.linn.co.uk [195.59.102.251]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F359403563 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:32:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DF78D22.6030101@eml.cc> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:32:34 +0100 From: Tim Cussins MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Runtime repartitioning Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi all, In July 2010 a couple of competing patchsets were submitted that aimed to provide runtime repartitioning of mtd devices. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/30458 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/30950 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/30949 Neither submission was accepted, comments were given on and off list, and that was the end of it :) The ability to create new mtd partitions after boot would be awesome - how can I get involved in getting such functionality into the tree? Cheers, Tim