[PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxpart: limit scanned flash area on BCM47XX (MIPS) only

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 14:45:09 PST 2016


On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 02:09:43AM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> We allowed using bcm47xxpart on BCM5301X arch with commit:
> 9e3afa5f5c7 ("mtd: bcm47xxpart: allow enabling on ARCH_BCM_5301X")
> 
> BCM5301X devices may contain some partitions in higher memory, e.g.
> Netgear R8000 has board_data at 0x2600000. To detect them we should
> use size limit on MIPS only.

Why was the siez limit imposed in the first place? Just to make the scan more
efficient?

> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>

Pushed to l2-mtd.git/next



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