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From: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Brian Walsh <brian@walsh.ws>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Deepak Sanexa <dsanexa@mvista.com>,
	dedekind1@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Question reg. parsing of mtd partitions
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:08:09 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF08D79.9090707@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110609083419.GA23553@doriath.ww600.siemens.net>

On 09.06.2011 12:34, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Hello, colleagues,
>
> While doing MTD partitions cleanup I noticed one strange thing.
> parse_mtd_partitions function bears one extra argument (origin)
> which isn't clearly described, set to non-zero only by ixp4xx.c
> driver and then read by redboot partition table handling. I wander if we
> can add some other way to handle this situation and drop this extra 0
> argument from lots of drivers/handlers/etc.
>
> Could you please check it?

At least the ixp4xx part was added by commit f40a6f1cc7fe522,
back in 2006:

If the amount of flash is not divisible by 2 then the mask in
parse_mtd_partitions would fail to work as designed.  Passing in the 
base address corrects this problem.


-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-09  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-09  8:34 Question reg. parsing of mtd partitions Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-09  9:08 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov [this message]
2011-06-09  9:23   ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-10 12:49     ` Brian Walsh
2011-06-10 13:09       ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov

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