mtdparts howto required!!

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:30 +1300, Robin Gilks wrote:
> Don't you just love it when someone replies to their own post!!

I do when they've solved their own problem. :)

> Problem solved - it would be nice if it were written down somewhere that 
> the physmap.c example is only that - a non-working example in that it 
> doesn't define a master mtd device which means you can't define the 
> partitions on it!!

I'm not sure I understand this. What does physmap.c need to do other
than passing in the 'master' mtd device as the first argument to
parse_mtd_partitions()?

> Also, when a master device is defined there is nothing to indicate that 
> the mtdparts command line has to use the same name as the mtd_id - in 
> fact I've found nothing that defines what mtd_id is.

cmdlinepart.c line 13:
 * <mtd-id>  := unique name used in mapping driver/device

I'll add '(mtd->name)' to that in the hope of making it clearer.

> Oh well - its kept me entertained for 3 days instead of doing real work...

Patches to improve documentation are always welcome :)

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dwmw2