[MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have the same name

Ricardo Ribalda Delgado ricardo.ribalda at uam.es
Thu Apr 23 01:34:29 EST 2009


Hello

You are right, remove the -1. I thought that strlen gives the #of
chars + 1 ('\0').


  Thanks



On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:24, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> "Ricardo" == Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda at uam.es> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  Ricardo> Sometimes, an special partition is included in the device
>  Ricardo> tree including all the partitions. Like in:
>
>  Ricardo>  drivers/mtd/ofpart.c |    3 ++-
>  Ricardo>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>  Ricardo> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c b/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
>  Ricardo> index 3e164f0..0af3b07 100644
>  Ricardo> --- a/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
>  Ricardo> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
>  Ricardo> @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ int __devinit of_mtd_parse_partitions(struct device *dev,
>
>  Ricardo>               /* check if this is a partition node */
>  Ricardo>               partname = of_get_property(pp, "name", &len);
>  Ricardo> -             if (strcmp(partname, "partition") != 0) {
>  Ricardo> +             if (strncmp(partname, "partition", strlen("partition")-1)
>
> Why strlen() - 1 ?
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
>



-- 
Ricardo Ribalda
http://www.eps.uam.es/~rribalda/



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