Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:07:04 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number when truncating occurs | From | Huang Shijie <> |
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:26:51 -0400 Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> wrote: >> > The specified cmdline partitions might not be ordered (according to >> > start offset), so next partition specified after the truncated one might >> > define a partition at the beginning of the device, which is okay >> > (regardless the truncation of current partition). >> could you please give me an example of this specified cmdline? > > Assume we have a 1GB(8Gb) nand chip: > #gpmi-nand:1g@200m(rootfs),100m@0(boot),100m@100m(kernel) > > I am used to explicitly specify size@offset for all my parts.
thanks for this example.
I tested it just now. The current code (without my patch) can not parse out none of the partitions. It directly stops at the first truncated `rootfs` partition.
I think i should send another patch to sort all the partitions.
thanks a lot.
Huang Shijie
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