PATCH - add cmdline partition support to cafe (eg mtdparts= boot command)

PATCH - add cmdline partition support to cafe (eg mtdparts= boot command)

[Philip Rakity]

Folks,

Could we please incorporate this info the main line linux code.  Adds command line mtdparts= support for cafe_nand flash.

NOTE:  I changed where add_mtd_device was done so that there is NOT a complete flash mount point following by the partitions that were added.  Before this n+1 partitions were added.  1 partition for the complete flash and then n partitions.

Philip
--- cafe_nand.c.ORIGINAL    2008-10-01 13:53:11.000000000 -0700
+++ cafe_nand.c    2008-10-01 13:55:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -87,8 +87,12 @@
 module_param_array(timing, int, &numtimings, 0644);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
+#ifdef CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS
+static const char *part_probes[] = { "cmdlinepart", "RedBoot", NULL };
+#else
 static const char *part_probes[] = { "RedBoot", NULL };
 #endif
+#endif
 
 /* Hrm. Why isn't this already conditional on something in the struct device? */
 #define cafe_dev_dbg(dev, args...) do { if (debug) dev_dbg(dev, ##args); } while(0)
@@ -628,7 +632,7 @@
     struct cafe_priv *cafe;
     struct mtd_partition *parts;
     uint32_t ctrl;
-    int nr_parts;
+    int nr_parts = 0;
     int err = 0;
 
     /* Very old versions shared the same PCI ident for all three
@@ -796,17 +800,21 @@
 
     pci_set_drvdata(pdev, mtd);
 
-    /* We register the whole device first, separate from the partitions */
-    add_mtd_device(mtd);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
+#ifdef CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS
+     mtd->name = "cafe_nand";
+#endif
     nr_parts = parse_mtd_partitions(mtd, part_probes, &parts, 0);
     if (nr_parts > 0) {
         cafe->parts = parts;
-        dev_info(&cafe->pdev->dev, "%d RedBoot partitions found\n", nr_parts);
+        dev_info(&cafe->pdev->dev, "%d partitions found\n", nr_parts);
         add_mtd_partitions(mtd, parts, nr_parts);
     }
 #endif
+
+    /* We register the whole device first, separate from the partitions */
+    if (nr_parts <= 0)
+        add_mtd_device(mtd);
     goto out;
 
Signed off by Philip Rakity -- October 1, 2008



      

Re: PATCH - add cmdline partition support to cafe (eg mtdparts= boot command)

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:00:51PM -0700, Philip Rakity wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Could we please incorporate this info the main line linux code.  Adds command line mtdparts= support for cafe_nand flash.
>
>NOTE:  I changed where add_mtd_device was done so that there is NOT a complete flash mount point following by the partitions that were added.  Before this n+1 partitions were added.  1 partition for the complete flash and then n partitions.

You need to add a proper Signed-off-by line to your patch before
it can be included.  Read Documenation/SubmittingPatches in the
kernel tree.

josh