From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [85.118.1.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0DEBDDE0D for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:32:14 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have the same name From: David Woodhouse To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <1241061577.29501.1.camel@pasglop> References: <1240387541-16594-1-git-send-email-ricardo.ribalda@uam.es> <1241061577.29501.1.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:32:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1241069526.2567.478.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado , "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" , "linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 04:19 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > 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. That's the model I think I want to move to, and which I was toying with in http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/mtd-sysfs.git (I haven't done it yet, but it's logically the next step after what I've already done). -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation