[PATCH] addpart: size and offset not needed for already defined partitions

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Feb 15 13:28:46 EST 2013


On 19:09 Fri 15 Feb     , Carlo Caione wrote:
> You can use the name of an already defined partition
> (i.e. hardcoded in board specific files) without specifying
> size and offset that are automatically obtained
> 
> i.e.
> 
> $ addpart /dev/nor0 (self)
> $ addpart /dev/nor0 (env0)
this is dangerous

specialy when you can knwon for sure that (self) will be in the nor flash

as on sama5d3x as we can boot from different media and barebox detect it
so the self will spi/nor/nand/mmc/eeprom

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <carlo.caione at gmail.com>
> ---
>  commands/partition.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/commands/partition.c b/commands/partition.c
> index fdd6041..8cb50ca 100644
> --- a/commands/partition.c
> +++ b/commands/partition.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static int mtd_part_do_parse_one(char *devname, const char *partstr,
>  	char buf[PATH_MAX] = {};
>  	unsigned long flags = 0;
>  	int ret;
> +	struct cdev *cdev;
>  
>  	memset(buf, 0, PATH_MAX);
>  
> @@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ static int mtd_part_do_parse_one(char *devname, const char *partstr,
>  		size = strtoul_suffix(partstr, &end, 0);
>  	}
>  
> -	if (*end == '@')
> +	if ((*end == '@') && (size != 0))
>  		*offset = strtoul_suffix(end+1, &end, 0);
>  
>  	if (size == SIZE_REMAINING)
> @@ -78,6 +79,18 @@ static int mtd_part_do_parse_one(char *devname, const char *partstr,
>  			printf("could not find matching ')'\n");
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		}
> +		memcpy(buf, partstr, end - partstr);
> +
> +		if (size == 0) {
> +			cdev = cdev_by_name(buf);
> +			if (!cdev) {
> +				printf("%s: partition not found\n", buf);
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +			}
> +
> +			size = cdev->size;
> +			*offset = cdev->offset;
> +		}
>  
>  		if (pflags & PART_ADD_DEVNAME)
>  			sprintf(buf, "%s.", devname);
> -- 
> 1.8.1.3
> 
> 
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