From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@uam.es>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David.Woodhouse@intel.com,
linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have the same name
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:19:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241061577.29501.1.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240387541-16594-1-git-send-email-ricardo.ribalda@uam.es>
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:05 +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Sometimes, an special partition is included in the device tree including all the
> partitions. Like in:
>
> partition@ff000000 {
> reg = < 0x000000 0x800000 >;
> label = "Root File System";
> };
> partition@ff800000 {
> reg = < 0x800000 0x1a0000 >;
> label = "Bitstream";
> };
> ...
> partitionAll@ff000000 {
> reg = < 0x000000 0x1000000 >;
> label = "Full FLASH";
> };
>
> Because two nodes of a device tree cannot have the same name, but all the
> partitions must be named "partition", this special partition is invalid.
>
> This patch makes ofpart.c only check for the firt part of the name, and
> ignore the rest, allowing this special partition.
I fail to see the point of this "special" partition in the first
place...
Things would make more sense if you had a full flash device
whose child nodes are the partitions.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-30 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 8:05 [MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have the same name Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2009-04-22 9:24 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-04-22 15:34 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2009-04-22 15:52 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2009-04-22 17:10 ` Benjamin Krill
2009-04-22 17:27 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 17:56 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2009-04-22 18:11 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 18:58 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2009-04-22 17:59 ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2009-04-22 18:33 ` Benjamin Krill
2009-04-30 3:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-04-30 5:32 ` [MTD] " David Woodhouse
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