[PATCH 2/3] mtd: cmdlinepart: sort the unsorted partitions

[Huang Shijie]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 13:21 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote:
>> Assume we have a 1GB(8Gb) nand chip.
>> It is legit if we set the partitions as the following:
>>     gpmi-nand:1g at 200m(rootfs),100m at 0(boot),100m at 100m(kernel)
>>
>> But the current code can not parse out any partition with this
>> cmdline.
>>
>> This patch sorts the unsorted partitions by the @offset.
>> For there are maybe only several partitions, i use the simple
>> Bubble sort algorithm.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8 at gmail.com>
>
> I still cannot find time to actually think about this carefully, but the
> commit message does not sound convincing, it does not explain why
> sorting is the right way to fix the issue, and what would be the
> alternatives. It actually also does not explain why exactly we currently
> cannot parse the example string.
>
thanks .

I will add more comment in the next version.

Best Regards
Huang Shijie