Re: [PATCH][MIPS][2/7] AR7: mtd partition map

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

> +#include <linux/squashfs_fs.h>

As Ralf mentioned this is not in mainline, so you can't include it.
Fortunately for you including it seems to be a rather dumb idea anyway,
see below for further comments.

> +static struct mtd_partition ar7_parts[5];

Can we please get a symbolic name for that 5?  Then again we only
seems to use 3 anyway, and create_mtd_partitions returns 4..

> +	unsigned int root_offset = 0xe0000;

Please provide a symbolic name for this one.

> +	printk(KERN_INFO "Parsing AR7 partition map...\n");

Do we really need this printk?

> +		if (header.checksum == 0xfeedfa42)
> +			break;
> +		if (header.checksum == 0xfeed1281)
> +			break;

These two want symbolic names, please:

enum {
	/* some comment */
	FOO_PART_MAGIC = 0xfeedfa42,	

	/* more comment */
	BAR_PART_MAGIC = 0xfeed1281,
};

> +	switch (header.checksum) {
> +	case 0xfeedfa42:
> +		while (header.length) {
> +			offset += sizeof(header) + header.length;
> +			master->read(master, offset, sizeof(header),
> +				     &len, (u_char *)&header);
> +		}
> +		root_offset = offset + sizeof(header) + 4;
> +		break;
> +	case 0xfeed1281:

Especially as you use them here again.

> +	default:
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "Unknown magic: %08x\n", header.checksum);
> +		break;
> +	}
> +
> +	master->read(master, root_offset,
> +		sizeof(header), &len, (u_char *)&header);
> +	if (header.checksum != SQUASHFS_MAGIC) {
> +		root_offset += master->erasesize - 1;
> +		root_offset &= ~(master->erasesize - 1);
> +	}

And after this I'm pretty sure either of the two hex constants above
is SQUASHFS_MAGIC.  But not actually the magic in the squashfs
superblock, but someone decided to reuse it for the partitions magic.
So one of the comments for *_PART_MAGIC becomes:

	/* same as SQUASHFS_MAGIC for some odd reason.. */