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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:17:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tnt.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: getting support for command-line flash partitioning
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Sylvain Munaut wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> | and neither the latest "bk pull" of the 2.5/2.6 kernel from
> | bkbits.net, or the standard 2.6 kernel on my fedora core system has
> | *any* support for that feature in the map files (even though the
> | kernel has the internal support).
> |
> Are you sure about that ?
>
> tnt@246tNt-laptop maps $ grep cmdline *
> ceiva.c:static const char *probes[] = { "cmdlinepart", "RedBoot", NULL };
> dc21285.c:static const char *probes[] = { "RedBoot", "cmdlinepart",NULL };
> edb7312.c:static const char *probes[] = { "RedBoot", "cmdlinepart",NULL };
> h720x-flash.c:static const char *probes[] = { "cmdlinepart", NULL };
> impa7.c:static const char *probes[] = { "cmdlinepart", NULL };
> integrator-flash.c:static const char *probes[] = { "cmdlinepart","RedBoot",
> "afs", NULL };
> iq80310.c:static const char *probes[] = { "RedBoot", "cmdlinepart",NULL };
> ixp4xx.c:static const char *probes[] = { "RedBoot", "cmdlinepart", NULL };
> lubbock-flash.c:static const char *probes[] = { "RedBoot","cmdlinepart", NULL
> };
> physmap.c:const char *part_probes[] = {"cmdlinepart", "RedBoot", NULL};
> sa1100-flash.c:const char *part_probes[] = { "cmdlinepart", "RedBoot",NULL };
> solutionengine.c:static const char *probes[] = { "RedBoot","cmdlinepart",
> NULL };
> wr_sbc82xx_flash.c:static const char *part_probes[] __initdata
> ={"cmdlinepart", "RedBoot", NULL};

   oops, i was working off the structure of the older kernel version
where the individual files explicitly checked the value of the config
variable CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS to decide what to do, and that's the
string i was grep'ing for.  this clearly changed in the newer files.
mea culpa.

rday

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