From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [213.239.205.147] (helo=debian.tglx.de) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Bi4Vm-0001lB-40 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:58:26 -0400 From: Thomas Gleixner To: Rainer Weikusat In-Reply-To: <87fz85eidc.fsf@farside.sncag.com> References: <87fz85eidc.fsf@farside.sncag.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1089175919.27856.0.camel@thomas.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:51:59 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: cmdlineparts.c Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 08:53, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Hi. > > I have rewritten cmdlineparts.c to no longer cause aligment traps on > ARM, to enable freeing of now-unsed cmdline_mtd_parition structs after > the real partitioning info has been passed to an upper layer and to > get rid of the recursion (using kmalloc instead has the [theoretical] > advantage that OOM problems can be dealt with gracefully instead of > causing stack overflows with possibly drastic consequences). Is there > any interest in this? [Mainly, I intend to use this for a project I am > currently working on]. Sure, provide a patch :) tglx