From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx•de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: sr@denx•de, jwboyer@linux•vnet.ibm.com, robh+dt@kernel•org,
mark.rutland@arm•com, benh@kernel•crashing.org, paulus@samba•org,
devicetree@vger•kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, trivial@kernel•org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 15:50:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efvl75ts.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170518094813.GA12038@amd>
Pavel Machek <pavel@denx•de> writes:
> On Wed 2017-05-17 14:37:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 May 2017 14:06:13 +0200 Pavel Machek <pavel@denx•de> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun 2017-04-02 12:05:36, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> > > Fix overlapping NAND partitions.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw•cz>
>> >
>> > Ping? Two partitions at same place are bad news...
>>
>> Please expand on "bad news"? What are the runtime effects of this
>> change? Decisions about which kernel(s) to patch depend on this info.
>
> Well... two partitions at same place. If you use one, you will corrupt
> information on the other one.
>
> OTOH this moves partition around (so that they don't overlap) so it is
> probably not stable candidate.
>
> I guess this is not huge issue; people using these boards probably
> have custom dts changes, anyway...
Or no one's even using it anymore.
I can take this via powerpc, I won't mark it for stable etc.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-19 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-02 10:05 [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Pavel Machek
2017-05-17 12:06 ` Pavel Machek
2017-05-17 21:37 ` Andrew Morton
2017-05-18 9:48 ` Pavel Machek
2017-05-19 5:50 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-05-19 9:12 ` Pavel Machek
2017-05-19 10:04 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-05-19 11:18 ` Pavel Machek
2017-05-22 9:12 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-05-30 9:11 ` Michael Ellerman
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