[PATCH] fixup! partition: reparse tables only if CONFIG_PARTITION_MANIPULATION=y

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Wed May 15 02:24:46 PDT 2024


partitions: add prompt and help text for CONFIG_PARTITION_MANIPULATION

So far, CONFIG_PARTITION_MANIPULATION was only selected by
CONFIG_CMD_PARTED and influenced repartitioning support.

Now that it's used to guard the feature of reparsing partition tables,
it makes sense to give it a help text and a prompt for devlopment usage.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
 common/Kconfig | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig
index 97a03217eac9..67cbbf5197da 100644
--- a/common/Kconfig
+++ b/common/Kconfig
@@ -888,7 +888,15 @@ config PARTITION
 	prompt "Enable Partitions"
 
 config PARTITION_MANIPULATION
-	bool
+	bool "Runtime reparsing of partition table" if COMPILE_TEST
+	help
+	  Say y here to have barebox reparse the partition table automatically
+	  when it's rewritten. This is useful when using the parted command
+	  or when writing full disk images that change the existing partitions.
+
+	  Reparsing the partition table will delete existing partitions and thus
+	  may break users that don't do proper reference counting. For this
+	  reason, this option is currently disabled by default.
 
 source "common/partitions/Kconfig"
 
-- 
2.39.2




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