Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752203Ab2H3Gj5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:39:57 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:50644 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751715Ab2H3Gj4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:39:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1346309023.2848.531.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> References: <1346001700-26895-1-git-send-email-shijie8@gmail.com> <1346001700-26895-3-git-send-email-shijie8@gmail.com> <1346309023.2848.531.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:39:55 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number when truncating occurs From: Huang Shijie To: dedekind1@gmail.com Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1814 Lines: 55 On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 13:21 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote: >> This patch is based on the assumption that all the partitions are >> in the right offset order. >> >> Assume we have a 1GB(8Gb) nand chip, and we set the partitions >> in the command line like this: >> #gpmi-nand:100m(boot),100m(kernel),1g(rootfs) >> >> In this case, the partition truncating occurs. The current code will >> get the following result: >> >> ---------------------------------- >> root@freescale ~$ cat /proc/mtd >> dev: size erasesize name >> mtd0: 06400000 00040000 "boot" >> mtd1: 06400000 00040000 "kernel" >> ---------------------------------- >> >> It is obvious that we lost the truncated partition `rootfs` which should >> be 824M in this case. >> >> Why? The old code sets the wrong partitions number when the truncating >> occurs. This patch fixes it. Alao add a `break` to shortcut the code in this >> case. >> >> After apply this patch, the result becomes: >> ---------------------------------- >> root@freescale ~$ cat /proc/mtd >> dev: size erasesize name >> mtd0: 06400000 00040000 "boot" >> mtd1: 06400000 00040000 "kernel" >> mtd2: 33800000 00040000 "rootfs" >> ---------------------------------- >> >> We get the right result. >> >> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie > > Should this have CC to -stable? It's ok to CC to stable. thanks Huang Shijie > > -- > Best Regards, > Artem Bityutskiy -- 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/