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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@uam•es>,
	"linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>,
	"linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org" <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have the same name
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:32:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241069526.2567.478.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241061577.29501.1.camel@pasglop>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-30  5:32 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 ` [MTD] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-04-30  5:32   ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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