From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.23]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 182wih-00085E-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:44:59 +0100 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:44:45 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: David Woodhouse Cc: Frank Neuber , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: parse_cmdline_partitions equivalent for map_info Message-ID: <20021019164445.GA9364@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20021018104910.GA11807@jupiter> <26791.1034943288@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <26791.1034943288@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Fri, 18 October 2002 13:14:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > neuber@convergence.de said: > > Now I'm looking for the same feature to pass the physically > > informations to the kernel (struct map_info). I could add this simply > > to the cmdline.c file based on the parse_cmdline_partitions function. > > That seems like a relatively sensible addition to physmap.c. You could make > it take the probe type that way too... > > 'physmap=0xe0000000,0x100000,16,cfi' Hmm, somewhere in my collection of yet-to-be-committed patches, I have a variant of the physmap driver that does exactly this and is capable of mapping up to eight independent devices. Interested? Jörn -- Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Doug MacIlroy