[PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxpart: detect Squashfs partition

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Sat Sep 14 14:19:54 EDT 2013


On 09/13/2013 01:02 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2013/9/13 Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:38:17PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c |    8 ++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
>>> index 9279a91..96f821a 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
>>> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
>>>   #define ML_MAGIC1                    0x39685a42
>>>   #define ML_MAGIC2                    0x26594131
>>>   #define TRX_MAGIC                    0x30524448
>>> +#define SQSH_MAGIC                   0x71736873      /* shsq */
>>
>> s/shsq/sqsh/
>>
>> Or really, the "sqsh" comment doesn't add much to the SQSH_MAGIC macro.
>> Maybe this instead?
>>
>> s/shsq/SquashFS/
>
> This is really a "shsq". If you read 0x71736873 in LE, you get:
> 1) 0x73 (s)
> 2) 0x68 (h)
> 3) 0x73 (s)
> 4) 0x71 (q)
>
> This is way I put the comment. To underline that this is a "shsq" in
> LE, that means SQSH (SQuaSHfs).

I see, my bad. That's still a weird magic (not your fault), as it's not 
really LE in the traditional (byte atomic) sense, but little endian with 
16-bit atoms.

Brian



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