[PATCH] Make number of GPT partitions a configurable option

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Santosh,

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:15:39AM +0530, Santosh Sivaraj wrote:
> Theoritically there is no limit for the partitions that can be created
> based on EFI/GPT, so make the number of partitions that can be visible
> in barebox a configurable option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh at fossix.org>
> ---
>  common/partitions/Kconfig  | 5 +++++
>  common/partitions/parser.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/partitions/Kconfig b/common/partitions/Kconfig
> index 90238ad..f3353dd 100644
> --- a/common/partitions/Kconfig
> +++ b/common/partitions/Kconfig
> @@ -31,3 +31,8 @@ config PARTITION_DISK_EFI_GPT_COMPARE
>  	depends on PARTITION_DISK_EFI
>  	default y
>  	bool "EFI: GPT: compare primary and Alternate GPT header for validity"
> +
> +config MAX_PARTITIONS
> +	depends on PARTITION_DISK_EFI
> +	int "Maximum of partitions needed to be supported on a GPT"
> +	default 8

Can we instead allocate the partitions dynamically? This limitation to
eight partitions we currently have is not nice, but making it
configurable is not a proper fix.

Sascha

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