[PATCH 1/8] mtd: Simplify partitions

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:08:58PM +0100, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> only some small nitpicks.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:25:28AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Embed the partition information in struct mtd_info. This makes the
> > mtd partition code simpler.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/partition.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
> >  include/linux/mtd/mtd.h |  5 +++-
> >  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/partition.c b/drivers/mtd/partition.c
> > index 85f486d..7431fc1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/partition.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/partition.c
> > @@ -4,29 +4,19 @@
> >  #include <linux/err.h>
> >  #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
> >  
> ...
> > +	struct mtd_info *part;
> >  	int start = 0, end = 0, i;
> >  
> > -	slave = xzalloc(sizeof(*slave));
> > -	slave_mtd = &slave->mtd;
> > +	part = xzalloc(sizeof(*part));
> >  
> > -	memcpy(slave_mtd, mtd, sizeof(*slave));
> > +	memcpy(part, mtd, sizeof(*part));
> 
> Maybe we should fixup this commit with patch:
> 
> [PATCH 6/8] mtd: partition: only copy selected fields to partition

I don't think so. Both change the same line, but do quite different
things.

> > -	struct mtd_part *part = PART(mtd);
> > +	if (!part->master)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > -	free(mtd->name);
> I think this should be free(part->name);

What do you mean? The line you are referring to is removed in this
patch.

> 
> ...
> Yea I know it's only a bootloader but I can't stop to say something to
> this. :-(
> 
> >  	free(part);
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> >  }
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
> > index 402e497..347443b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
> > @@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ struct mtd_info {
> >  	/* If true erasing bad blocks is allowed, this is set via a device parameter */
> >  	bool allow_erasebad;
> >  	int p_allow_erasebad;
> > +
> > +	struct mtd_info *master;
> > +	uint64_t master_offset;
> Currently we have only u_int32_t like for total mtd size. Do you
> plan a support for mtd devices which a greater than 4GB? :-)

Well the mtd layer is directly from Linux which supports devices > 4GB,
so sooner or later we'll do aswell. Anyway, since the master device
doesn't support 64bit there's no point in making this variable 64bit
now.

Sascha

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