[PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxpart: alloc memory for more partitions

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 02:48:46 PDT 2014


This is needed for some new Netgear devices (e.g. R6250).

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
index 8057f52..f2db4d7 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
@@ -15,8 +15,12 @@
 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
 #include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
 
-/* 10 parts were found on sflash on Netgear WNDR4500 */
-#define BCM47XXPART_MAX_PARTS		12
+/*
+ * NAND flash on Netgear R6250 was verified to contain 15 partitions.
+ * This will result in allocating too big array for some old devices, but the
+ * memory will be freed soon anyway (see mtd_device_parse_register).
+ */
+#define BCM47XXPART_MAX_PARTS		20
 
 /*
  * Amount of bytes we read when analyzing each block of flash memory.
-- 
1.8.4.5




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