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From: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
	Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>,
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	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
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	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
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	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
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	Vimal Singh <vimal.newwork@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MTD: pass driver methods through partition wrappers on unpartitioned devices
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:28:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF3BD20.9010408@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324559149.10300.93.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

On 12/22/2011 05:05 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 10:42 -0800, Mike Dunn wrote:
>> +		/*
>> +		 * For unpartitioned devices, create a single "partition" that
>> +		 * spans the entire device, so that driver methods go through
>> +		 * partition wrappers in all cases.
>> +		 */
>> +		struct mtd_partition single_part = {
>> +			.name = (char *)mtd->name,
>> +			.offset = 0,
>> +			.size = mtd->size,
>> +			.mask_flags = 0,
>> +			.ecclayout = mtd->ecclayout,
>> +		};
>> +		err = add_mtd_partitions(mtd, &single_part, 1);
>>  	}
> There is a problem with this approach :-(
>
> Look at the 'mtd_blkpg_ioctl()' function which is used to re-partition
> MTD device from user-space. It is a bit strange, but we use block device
> for re-partition in order to not invent new ioctls.


Sorry, missed that too.  So many perils...

Thanks,
Mike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-22 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-20 18:42 [PATCH 0/2] always use partition wrappers; drivers return bitflips Mike Dunn
2011-12-20 18:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] MTD: pass driver methods through partition wrappers on unpartitioned devices Mike Dunn
2011-12-22 12:34   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-22 23:28     ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-22 13:05   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-22 18:03     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-22 23:28       ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-23 14:47         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-22 23:28     ` Mike Dunn [this message]
2011-12-20 18:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] MTD: read(), read_oob() driver methods return num bitflips Mike Dunn
2011-12-21  8:10 ` [PATCH 0/2] always use partition wrappers; drivers return bitflips Thomas Petazzoni

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