Discovering current MTD partition

[umar at janteq.com]

>
>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:43 -0700, Umar Qureshey wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I searched this list's archive but did not see anything pertinent.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if there is a way to find out what the currently
>> active mtd
>> > partition is.  In my system, I have a few flash partitions for my file
>> > system and the kernel boots with the partition that is specified on
>> the
>> > kernel command line.  Aside from scanning /proc/cmdline, is there a
>> way to
>> > programmatically ascertain which mtd partition is active *now*.
>> > I need to find this information within a Python script but really if
>> it can
>> > be done in C (perhaps a syscall?), it's all I need.
>>
>> What does active mean? Anyway, there is /proc/mtd at your disposal.
>
> If you want to find out which partition is mounted as root you could look
> at /proc/mounts .
>
> /Ricard

Hi,
/proc/mtd simply gives me a list of partition on the mtd device.  It
doesn't tell me which one we currently have booted from.

/proc/mounts as well doesn't relay any info about /dev/mtdXX.

~Umar