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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number
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On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 09:06 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> root	100m@0
> kernel	100m@100m
> rootfs	800m@200m (truncated)
> user	0@1g (truncated)
> rest	0@1g

Who would benefit from having those 2 0-sized partitions and how? How
many users/scripts would be confused by this (these 2 ghost partitions
would be visible in /proc/mtd and sysfs)? How much RAM would we spend
for creating sysfs files and directories for these ghost partitions
(note, one sysfs file costs a couple KiB I thing, because 'sizeof
(struct inode)').

While you suggestion is clever, do we really benefit from this?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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