Physmap, exposing a master partition/device.

[Tom Rathbone]

Hi All,

Using physmap partitions I'd like to be able to write to my flash
device as a whole and also access it as partitions.  This way under
usual operation I can use the partitions and when doing a full
re-flash I can write the whole device including the partition table
and can also write across partition boundaries.

In comments in mtdpart.c I have seen this:

--

/*
  * This function, given a master MTD object and a partition table, creates
  * and registers slave MTD objects which are bound to the master according to
 * the partition definitions.
  * (Q: should we register the master MTD object as well?)
 */

int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,

--

What changes would be required to include a master partition? Can I do
this separately using add_mtd_device? Alternatively is there a way to
unpartition the flash from userspace?

Thanks,

Tom.