From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754853AbdESFvB (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2017 01:51:01 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:44135 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751875AbdESFu7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2017 01:50:59 -0400 From: Michael Ellerman To: Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton Cc: sr@denx.de, jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap In-Reply-To: <20170518094813.GA12038@amd> References: <20170402100535.GA18340@amd> <20170517120613.GA583@amd> <20170517143717.ad818a2282378fc7a38af1ff@linux-foundation.org> <20170518094813.GA12038@amd> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21 (https://notmuchmail.org) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 15:50:55 +1000 Message-ID: <87efvl75ts.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek writes: > On Wed 2017-05-17 14:37:17, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 17 May 2017 14:06:13 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> > On Sun 2017-04-02 12:05:36, Pavel Machek wrote: >> > > Fix overlapping NAND partitions. >> > > >> > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek >> > >> > Ping? Two partitions at same place are bad news... >> >> Please expand on "bad news"? What are the runtime effects of this >> change? Decisions about which kernel(s) to patch depend on this info. > > Well... two partitions at same place. If you use one, you will corrupt > information on the other one. > > OTOH this moves partition around (so that they don't overlap) so it is > probably not stable candidate. > > I guess this is not huge issue; people using these boards probably > have custom dts changes, anyway... Or no one's even using it anymore. I can take this via powerpc, I won't mark it for stable etc. cheers