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From: "Umar Qureshey" <umar@janteq.com>
To: <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Discovering current MTD partition
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:43:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000201cc046b$b03a6310$10af2930$@janteq.com> (raw)

Hi,

I searched this list's archive but did not see anything pertinent.

I was wondering if there is a way to find out what the currently active mtd
partition is.  In my system, I have a few flash partitions for my file
system and the kernel boots with the partition that is specified on the
kernel command line.  Aside from scanning /proc/cmdline, is there a way to
programmatically ascertain which mtd partition is active *now*.  
I need to find this information within a Python script but really if it can
be done in C (perhaps a syscall?), it's all I need.

Regards,
Umar

             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-26 23:43 Umar Qureshey [this message]
2011-04-27  5:31 ` Discovering current MTD partition Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-27  6:22   ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-27 17:08     ` umar
2011-04-28  7:31       ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-28  7:37         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-28  8:00           ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-28  8:52             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-28  9:09               ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-27  7:25   ` umar
     [not found]     ` <4DB7C9F9.9000609@free-electrons.com>
2011-04-27 17:14       ` umar
2011-04-28  4:27         ` Iwo Mergler
2011-04-28  7:39           ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-28 17:26           ` umar
2011-04-28 17:48             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-29  0:53               ` umar
2011-04-28 18:08 ` Bjørn Forsman
2011-04-28 18:21   ` Atlant Schmidt

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