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On 15/06/11 16:44, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Tim Cussins<timcussins@eml.cc>  wrote:
>> 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?
>
> It's probably a good idea to at least CC those who worked on this
> before...I added Roman Tereshonkov, the one who started the
> discussion.
>
> Anyway, it looks like Roman ended up submitting a revised version of
> the patch from the first discussion. His work made it into the kernel
> as the following two commits. You can feel free to test it yourself!
>
> 5daa7b21496aebf057c12be03038e7220e33353b
> mtd: prepare partition add and del functions for ioctl requests
>
> d0f7959e2b708d775c3b6b53cc6a8abb8ff0a00b
> mtd: add BLKPG API based repartition support
>
> Brian

Hi Brian,

Whoa, they've been in for a while... I was looking in mtd-api.h for ioctls

Thanks heaps,
Tim