MTD partitioning code broken?

[Vipin Malik]

Hi Folks,

I'm just getting back into playing with this again after successfully 
setting up partitioning up last year..

Is there something broken with the mtd partitioning code?

I defined 3 mtd partitions on one 8MB flash in my map file (based off the 
maps/netsc520.c). The partitions look fine on the printk debug log and a 
"cat /proc/mtd" shows three devices with the proper sizes and names as 
defined in my "mtd_partition" map structure in my map file.

However, it seems that 6 mtd partitions have been added (even though just 3 
show up in /proc/mtd)!
All 6 mtd devices from /dev/mtd0...5 allow a "less -f on them".

Each of mtd[0,1], mtd[2,3] and mtd[4,5] pairs point to partitions 1,2&3 
respectively. Each of the *pairs* above point to the same partitions (have 
the same stuff in them, pair 1 points to partition 1 etc.).

However mtdblock0,1,2 each points to the correct partition! In fact I'm 
booting root fs from /dev/mtdblock1 which does contain the correct 
compressed root fs.

And I've checked that my /dev/mtd0,1,2,3,4,5 devices are pointing to char 
devices 30,1...5

Any clues?

Vipin

P.S. This is a resend of my mail yesterday from my work address that 
apparently did not make it even though the MX-verify script did not have a 
problem with my work address(?). In case that one shows up too- apologies!