From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.144]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1LN3dD-00027K-Lu for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:09:58 +0000 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so52580eyg.24 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:09:54 -0800 (PST) Sender: Peter Korsgaard To: "Mike Frysinger" Subject: Re: Access entire device with mtdblock0 References: <4967F2B2.4060405@jkmicro.com> <8bd0f97a0901131510k25addc8es917fb4e827bb2cf@mail.gmail.com> <878wpeclf1.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <8bd0f97a0901140258n3cdc2637hdfcd8f162205c654@mail.gmail.com> From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:09:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0901140258n3cdc2637hdfcd8f162205c654@mail.gmail.com> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Wed\, 14 Jan 2009 05\:58\:43 -0500") Message-ID: <874p02cfeo.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Adam Yergovich List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frysinger writes: Hi, >> Why not just add a partition spanning the entire device in >> addition to the other partitions? Mike> i was not aware partition tables allowed for overlaps. if Mike> that's true, then the answer is obvious and easy to implement Mike> in boards ... I'm pretty sure it does, and I don't see any checks for it in mtdpart.c:add_one_partition() -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard