* [PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxpart: alloc memory for more partitions
@ 2014-10-02 9:48 Rafał Miłecki
2014-10-22 8:43 ` Brian Norris
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From: Rafał Miłecki @ 2014-10-02 9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Woodhouse, Artem Bityutskiy, Brian Norris, linux-mtd
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens, Rafał Miłecki
This is needed for some new Netgear devices (e.g. R6250).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
---
drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
index 8057f52..f2db4d7 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
@@ -15,8 +15,12 @@
#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
#include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
-/* 10 parts were found on sflash on Netgear WNDR4500 */
-#define BCM47XXPART_MAX_PARTS 12
+/*
+ * NAND flash on Netgear R6250 was verified to contain 15 partitions.
+ * This will result in allocating too big array for some old devices, but the
+ * memory will be freed soon anyway (see mtd_device_parse_register).
+ */
+#define BCM47XXPART_MAX_PARTS 20
/*
* Amount of bytes we read when analyzing each block of flash memory.
--
1.8.4.5
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* Re: [PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxpart: alloc memory for more partitions
2014-10-02 9:48 [PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxpart: alloc memory for more partitions Rafał Miłecki
@ 2014-10-22 8:43 ` Brian Norris
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From: Brian Norris @ 2014-10-22 8:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rafał Miłecki
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens, linux-mtd, David Woodhouse, Artem Bityutskiy
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:48:46AM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> This is needed for some new Netgear devices (e.g. R6250).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Pushed to l2-mtd.git.
Brian
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