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SubjectRE: [PATCH 1/2] mtdpart: memory accessor interface for MTD layer
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On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 12:18 +0530, Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I'll be re-working on this patch and will
> re-post
> the updated patch soon.

Start with this, perhaps...

Subject: mtd/partitions: Add add_mtd_partitions_ret() function

Some callers want access to the MTD devices which get registered for
them when they call add_mtd_partitions(). Add a variant on the function
which does that.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index 4c539de..b9ee79b 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -522,26 +522,36 @@ out_register:
* for reasons of data integrity.
*/

-int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
- const struct mtd_partition *parts,
- int nbparts)
+int add_mtd_partitions_ret(struct mtd_info *master,
+ const struct mtd_partition *parts,
+ int nbparts, struct mtd_info ***mtds_ret)
{
struct mtd_part *slave;
uint64_t cur_offset = 0;
+ struct mtd_info **mtds = NULL;
int i;

printk(KERN_NOTICE "Creating %d MTD partitions on \"%s\":\n", nbparts, master->name);

+ if (mtds_ret) {
+ mtds = kmalloc(sizeof(*mtds) * nbparts, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!mtds)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
for (i = 0; i < nbparts; i++) {
slave = add_one_partition(master, parts + i, i, cur_offset);
- if (!slave)
+ if (!slave) {
+ kfree(mtds);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
cur_offset = slave->offset + slave->mtd.size;
}

+ if (mtds_ret)
+ *mtds_ret = mtds;
return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_mtd_partitions);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_mtd_partitions_ret);

static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(part_parser_lock);
static LIST_HEAD(part_parsers);
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h b/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
index 274b619..f7935fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
@@ -49,9 +49,12 @@ struct mtd_partition {

struct mtd_info;

-int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *, const struct mtd_partition *, int);
+int add_mtd_partitions_ret(struct mtd_info *, const struct mtd_partition *, int,
+ struct mtd_info ***);
int del_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *);

+#define add_mtd_partitions(m, p, n) add_mtd_partitions_ret(m, p, n, NULL)
+
/*
* Functions dealing with the various ways of partitioning the space
*/
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation



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