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

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 23 January 2016 at 23:45, Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

That's correct, just to save a minimal amount of time.

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Rafał