[PATCH 1/2] mtd: cmdlinepart: allow small partitions

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 18:39:13 PDT 2015


On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> I'm not sure why we have a PAGE_SIZE restriction on this partition
> parser.
> 
> If we really wanted the restriction, I would expect it to be a
> restriction for *all* parsers, so we'd move it to the MTD core
> 
> At any rate, while small partitions may not be useful (they'll often be
> smaller than the eraseblock size and therefore can only be used
> read-only), they still have use as a read-only partition.
> 
> This restriction is especially annoying because it aborts the entire
> MTD's cmdline parsing, leaving it unpartitioned.
> 
> So, let's kill the restriction and only check for zero-sized partitions,
> which I expect we don't want to allow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> ---
> Anyone know a good reason why this restriction should be here?

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