linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number when truncating occurs

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Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:10:30 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Cc:	Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number
 when truncating occurs

On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 11:51 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> > While you suggestion is clever, do we really benefit from this?
> 
> Artem, please note this is just a side effect of what I've suggested
> (that its, continue parsing after first truncated partition), not a real
> use case I'd expect and intentionally wish to support.

Sorry, I was not reading carefully enough. Could you please recap - are
you fine with Huang's latest patch-set or not :) To me sorting and then
dropping 0-size partitions looks like a simple and robust approach.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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