Question reg. parsing of mtd partitions

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

On 6/9/11, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09.06.2011 12:34, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>> Hello, colleagues,
>>
>> While doing MTD partitions cleanup I noticed one strange thing.
>> parse_mtd_partitions function bears one extra argument (origin)
>> which isn't clearly described, set to non-zero only by ixp4xx.c
>> driver and then read by redboot partition table handling. I wander if we
>> can add some other way to handle this situation and drop this extra 0
>> argument from lots of drivers/handlers/etc.
>>
>> Could you please check it?
>
> At least the ixp4xx part was added by commit f40a6f1cc7fe522,
> back in 2006:
>
> If the amount of flash is not divisible by 2 then the mask in
> parse_mtd_partitions would fail to work as designed.  Passing in the
> base address corrects this problem.

Found the original patch/report at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/24662

Awaiting for comments on this.

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With best wishes
Dmitry