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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:07:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number when
 truncating occurs
From: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
To: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
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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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