[PATCH 0/2] mtd: add BLKPG API based repartition support
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 08:42:37 EDT 2010
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 13:31 +0300, Roman Tereshonkov wrote:
> Add support for mtd repartition based on the block
> device BLKPG interface:
> BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION - for partition creation;
> BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION - for partition delete
>
> The usage is based on BLKPG ioctl called with
> struct blkpg_ioctl_arg argument. This structure includes the
> reference to struct blkpg_partition discribing the
> partition name, offset and length for partition creation
> and partition number for its deletion.
>
> Disadvantage: there is no implementation for mtd
> flags control. The flags are always borrowed from
> the master device.
>
> Roman Tereshonkov (2):
> mtd: prepare partition add and del functions for ioctl requests
> mtd: add BLKPG API based repartition support
>
> drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> include/linux/mtd/partitions.h | 5 ++
> 3 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
The patches look good. Pushed to the l2-mtd-2.6.git tree with my
signature, thanks!
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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