Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd: mtdpart: Fix cosmetic print

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

zajec5@gmail.com wrote on Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:37:21 +0200:

> On 25.08.2022 08:04, Adrian Zaharia wrote:
> > From: Jani Nurminen <jani.nurminen@windriver.com>
> > 
> > The print of the MTD partitions during boot are off-by-one for the size.
> > Fix this and show the real last offset.  
> 
> I see that PCI subsystem and printk() + %pR do that. Probably more. I
> guess it makes sense but I'm also wondering if/how confusing is that
> change going to be for users. We did printing like that for probably
> dozens of years.

Agreed, I would rather not mess with this output which might be
considered part of the ABI, I am sure there are plenty of scripts out
there which do silly things with those lines :-)

> 
> 
> > Fixes: 3d6f657ced2b ("mtd: mtdpart: Fix cosmetic print")  
> 
> I can't find that hash / commit anywhere. Are you sure it exists?
> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Jani Nurminen <jani.nurminen@windriver.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Zaharia <Adrian.Zaharia@windriver.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
> > index d442fa94c872..fab10e6d4171 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
> > @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static struct mtd_info *allocate_partition(struct mtd_info *parent,
> >   		child->part.size = parent_size - child->part.offset;  
> >   >   	printk(KERN_NOTICE "0x%012llx-0x%012llx : \"%s\"\n",  
> > -	       child->part.offset, child->part.offset + child->part.size,
> > +	       child->part.offset, child->part.offset + child->part.size - 1,
> >   	       child->name);  
> >   >   	/* let's do some sanity checks */  
> 


Thanks,
Miquèl