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From: "Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How can I prevent MTD to access the end of a flash device ?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:12:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cda58cb80604240912o61ab1491i13946fe2f0f03c27@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145893231.16166.340.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>

2006/4/24, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> MTD partitions aren't like block device partitions. You just get a set
> of MTD devices which are like a wrapper around the original.
>
> MTD concat is the same. You should be able to partition and concat and
> partition and concat on top of each other to your heart's content. If
> you so desire.
>

oh ok...should I simply use add_mtd_partitions(...) function to create
a new MTD device based on a given partition ?

> > Do you think it's possible to change the size of a mtd device rigth
> > after probing it ?
>
> Yes, that works too.
>

In your opinion, what is the right thing to do ?

thanks
--
               Franck

      reply	other threads:[~2006-04-24 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cda58cb80511070248o6d7a18bex@mail.gmail.com>
2005-11-22 14:58 ` Franck
2005-11-22 15:21   ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-22 15:53   ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-11-24  8:32     ` Franck
2005-11-28 16:55       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-23 17:06     ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-04-23 17:24       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-23 18:57         ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-04-24 15:40           ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-24 16:12             ` Franck Bui-Huu [this message]

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