Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751886AbbD2Vq5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:46:57 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:33921 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231AbbD2Vq4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:46:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:46:48 -0700 From: Brian Norris To: Ben Shelton Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Westfahl Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Introduce CONFIG_MTD_RESERVE_END Message-ID: <20150429214648.GF32500@ld-irv-0074> References: <1430335682-6174-1-git-send-email-ben.shelton@ni.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430335682-6174-1-git-send-email-ben.shelton@ni.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 522 Lines: 13 > + This can be useful if, for example, the BBT is stored at the end > + of the flash, and you don't want those blocks counted as part of > + the last MTD partition. And why is that a problem? We don't add Kconfig options just because you "don't want" something. Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/