From: wolfgang@leila.ping.de (Wolfgang Wegner)
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Adam Yergovich <ayergo@jkmicro.com>
Subject: Re: Access entire device with mtdblock0
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:50:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114115056.GD7994@leila.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0901140258n3cdc2637hdfcd8f162205c654@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:58:43AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > "Mike" == Mike Frysinger <writes:
> >>> Any recommendations on a simple way to create a partition using the
> >>> entirety of flash?
> >>
> >> looks like no one responded. i'm pretty sure the answer is to use
> >> add_mtd_device() even in face of add_mtd_partitions().
> >
> > Why not just add a partition spanning the entire device in addition to
> > the other partitions?
>
> i was not aware partition tables allowed for overlaps. if that's
> true, then the answer is obvious and easy to implement in boards ...
They are allowed, but I have not been able yet to do a correct query
for erase_size in case of a partition covering a whole device having
multiple different-sized erase regions.
Regards,
Wolfgang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-10 0:58 Access entire device with mtdblock0 Adam Yergovich
2009-01-10 1:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-13 23:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-14 9:00 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-14 10:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-14 11:09 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-14 11:25 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2009-01-14 11:50 ` Wolfgang Wegner [this message]
2009-01-14 17:06 ` Adam Yergovich
2009-01-31 0:08 ` Adam Yergovich
2009-02-05 22:56 ` hartleys
2009-02-06 0:32 ` Adam Yergovich
2009-02-09 13:15 ` Peter Korsgaard
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