mtdparts= documentation change
Philip Rakity
prakity at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 30 14:12:27 EDT 2008
Recently I tried to figure out where the name of the mtd disk came from since I was modifying cafe_nand.c to do command line parsing (patch coming for this later in the week). I could not find an explicit reference so I hacked the code to only find out that it can be easily seen by issuing the command
cat /proc/mtd
I know it also is in the bootup console output (now !)
.
The following patch would help make explicit how to find the name.
--- /Volumes/unix/linux-2.6.26.5/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c 2008-09-08 10:40:20.000000000 -0700
+++ Desktop/cmdlinepart_new.c 2008-09-29 18:00:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
* <mtddef> := <mtd-id>:<partdef>[,<partdef>]
* <partdef> := <size>[@offset][<name>][ro][lk]
* <mtd-id> := unique name used in mapping driver/device (mtd->name)
+ * eg: this is the name seen in "cat /proc/mtd/" output
* <size> := standard linux memsize OR "-" to denote all remaining space
* <name> := '(' NAME ')'
*
signed off by Philip Rakity
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