Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:22:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: support embedded device command line partition |
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 09:57:04 +0000 Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> wrote:
> From: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> > > Read block device partition table from command line. > The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. > It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by > absolute address of data on the block device. > Users can easily change the partition. > > This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c" > About the partition verbose reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" >
Seems OK to me.
The obvious question is: can we consolidate this with drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c in some fashion so the kernel doesn't have two parsers which do the same thing?
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