[PATCH 1/3] mtd: cmdlinepart: make the partitions rule more strict

[Huang Shijie]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 13:21 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote:
>> There are typically two types to set the mtd partitions:
>>
>> <1> set with the `size`, such as
>>     gpmi-nand:100m(boot),100m(kernel),1g(rootfs)
>>
>> <2> set with the `offset`, such as
>>     gpmi-nand:100m at 0(boot),100m at 100m(kernel),1g at 200m(rootfs)
>>     gpmi-nand:1g at 200m(rootfs),100m at 0(boot),100m at 100m(kernel)
>>
>> If we mix these two types, such as:
>>      gpmi-nand:100m at 0(boot),100m(kernel),1g at 200m(rootfs)
>>      gpmi-nand:1g at 200m(rootfs),100m at 0(boot),100m(kernel)
>>
>> It's hard to understand the cmdline. And also it is hard to sort the
>> partitions in this mixed type. So we explicitly forbid the mixed type.
>
> So "explicitly forbid" is just to add a "do not do this" comment?
>
Do you think we should change the code to forbid this mixed type?

Huang Shijie