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

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Apr 30 15:32:06 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 04:19 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> I fail to see the point of this "special" partition in the first
> place...
> 
> Things would make more sense if you had a full flash device
> whose child nodes are the partitions.

That's the model I think I want to move to, and which I was toying with
in http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/mtd-sysfs.git (I haven't done it
yet, but it's logically the next step after what I've already done).

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation




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