Re: Command line parsing

["David A. Braun" <braunster@gmail.com>]

as Clinton said - it depends on what you mean by "it"

If by "it" you mean the return value of EINVAL when the named partition 
by master->name is not found then you are correct. My mistake.

dave

Timofei V. Bondarenko wrote:

> David A. Braun wrote:
>
>> If the name in master->name doesn't match any of the partitions 
>> mentioned on the kernel command line then *pparts->offset is not 
>> initialized. The result is that all the partitions start at 0. Also 
>> the length of the "SIZE_REMAINING" partition is never initialized. 
>> Also the return value is -EINVAL instead of the number of partitions. 
>> This results in none of the partitions being pass to the driver. The 
>> only partition that appears in /proc/partitions is one for the whole 
>> device.
>>
>
> Is not it intentional?
>
> There is a comment:
> <Q> mtd-id := unique name used in mapping driver/device (mtd->name) </Q>
>
> These names are identifing the separate devices rather than partitions.
> And IMO it's only way to deal multiple flash devices with different 
> partitioning.
>
> -- 
> Regards.
>     Tim.
>