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Subject: Re: MTD Flash Partition: change possible?
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On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:09 +0200, Arno Steffen wrote:
> If I check the git for mtd-utils, this pathes seems not to be
> inserted. Do I have to patch manually?
> http://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git

Yes.

> Calculating the address might work, but hasn't to be. It is not
> forbidden to have "holes" in the partition table.

OK. Then I think you can introduce a sysfs attribute like:

/sys/class/mtd/mtd0/start

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)