Re: [PATCH 0/4] mtd: add mtd repartition ioctl

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 08:50 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:08 +0300, Roman Tereshonkov wrote:
> > Adding mtd master device after all partitions should provide
> > minimum effect on the created partition enumeration.
> > 
> > The master mtd device can be repartitioned in runtime through
> > the mtd ioctl MTDREPARTITION. The ioctl passed argument is
> > the set of the new partitions defined by the structures:
> > struct mtd_partitions and struct mtd_partition_user.
> > 
> > All at once partition configuration is used and caused by
> > the all at once partition removing. Only unused partitions are deleted.
> > If any of the partitions for given mtd device is used then user gets error.
> > The care should be taken to close all applications which access
> > the partitions.
> > 
> > Roman Tereshonkov (4):
> >   mtd: add new ioctl structures to be used for repartitioning
> >   mtd: add the possibility to modify partitions in runtime
> >   mtd: add MTDREPARTITION ioctl
> >   mtd: create the mtd master device for given set of partitions
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c          |  110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c          |   45 ++++++++++++++--
> >  drivers/mtd/onenand/omap2.c    |    8 ++-
> >  include/linux/mtd/partitions.h |    2 +
> >  include/mtd/mtd-abi.h          |   15 ++++++
> >  5 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> I've pushed this to my l2-mtd-2.6.git / master, looks good to me.

Removed from l2-mtd-2.6 - please, address the comments from me and Arnd.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)