From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134] helo=mgw-mx09.nokia.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ObWBm-0008IS-Tg for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:06:11 +0000 Received: from vaebh105.NOE.Nokia.com (vaebh105.europe.nokia.com [10.160.244.31]) by mgw-mx09.nokia.com (Switch-3.3.3/Switch-3.3.3) with ESMTP id o6LA4Io2023700 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:06:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mtd: add mtd repartition ioctl From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Roman Tereshonkov In-Reply-To: <1278568257.12733.34.camel@localhost> References: <1276855711-18570-1-git-send-email-roman.tereshonkov@nokia.com> <1278568257.12733.34.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:58:43 +0300 Message-ID: <1279706323.2306.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)