From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Fix physmap_of to not exit upon unsuccessful partition scan
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:06:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B1E02A.3090709@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202832181-1783-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de>
Stefan Roese wrote:
> The patch 9a310d21196f38f6ad0ad146057548653e495c09 ("[MTD] Factor out OF
> partition support from the NOR driver.") introduced an problem. Now the
> physmap_of driver returns with error upon the first unsuccessful
> partition scan (parse_mtd_partitions()). This is not wanted, since even
> when the RedBoot/cmdlinepart partition scan is unsuccessful, the other
> scan's (of_mtd_parse_partitions(), parse_obsolete_partitions()) should be
> done nevertheless.
>
> This patch fixes this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
> ---
>
> Scott, could you please take a look at this patch and add you ACK if you
> think it is ok?
I was under the impression -- and looking at the code seems to back that
up -- that parse_mtd_partitions() returns zero if the scan was
unsuccessful due to the lack of a partition table, and negative only if
there's a real error.
Under what conditions are you actually seeing this fail?
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 16:03 [PATCH] mtd: Fix physmap_of to not exit upon unsuccessful partition scan Stefan Roese
2008-02-12 18:06 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-02-12 19:15 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-12 19:27 ` Scott Wood
2008-02-12 19:37 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-14 12:49 ` Peter Korsgaard
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