Command line parsing

Marius Groeger mgroeger at sysgo.com
Tue Sep 20 03:37:12 EDT 2005


On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, David A. Braun wrote:

> If the name in master->name doesn't match any of the partitions 
> mentioned on the kernel command line then *pparts->offset is not 
> initialized. The result is that all the partitions start at 0. Also 
> the length of the "SIZE_REMAINING" partition is never initialized. 
> Also the return value is -EINVAL instead of the number of 
> partitions. This results in none of the partitions being pass to the 
> driver. The only partition that appears in /proc/partitions is one 
> for the whole device.

Thanks for digging so deeply in to the code. I suggest it would be 
best if you prepare a patch and send it to the list.

Regards,
Marius

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