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From: Cam Mayor <cmayor@iders.ca>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extend physmap.c to support run-time adding partitions
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:57:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03102916572705.02584@kilauea.iders.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031029104546.K30683@mvista.com>

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 12:45, Jun Sun wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:13:26AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > That's nicer. Why multiple physmap_add_partition() calls rather than
> > just a single array passed to physmap_set_map() though?
>
> Hmm, currently partition only matters when CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
> is enabled.  I assume this mean sometimes people want to use
> physmap without partitions.  True?

Yes.  We have a product that partitions physmap (from the kernel command 
line), but also uses the unpartitioned physmap base device. 

ie. physmap on /dev/mtd0
    physmap partitions on /dev/mtd1, /dev/mtd2, etc.   sometimes none.

cam

-- 
Cameron Mayor
Iders Incorporated

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-29 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-23  1:25 [PATCH] extend physmap.c to support run-time adding partitions Jun Sun
     [not found] ` <20031023153307.GA11669@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
2003-10-23 17:03   ` Jun Sun
2003-10-23 17:31     ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-23 17:43       ` Jun Sun
2003-10-23 18:15         ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-23 20:04           ` Jun Sun
2003-10-23 23:57             ` Jun Sun
2003-10-28  8:22               ` Holger Schurig
2003-10-29  2:33                 ` Jun Sun
2003-10-27 18:17 ` Jun Sun
2003-10-28 10:50   ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-29  2:28     ` Jun Sun
2003-10-29 11:13       ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-29 18:45         ` Jun Sun
2003-10-29 19:32           ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-29 23:15             ` Jun Sun
2003-10-29 22:57           ` Cam Mayor [this message]
2003-10-29 23:13             ` Jun Sun

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