linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number when truncating occurs

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:39:55 +0800
From:	Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>
To:	dedekind1@...il.com
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shmulik.ladkani@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtd: cmdlinepart: fix the wrong partitions number
 when truncating occurs

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 13:21 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote:
>> This patch is based on the assumption that all the partitions are
>> in the right offset order.
>>
>> Assume we have a 1GB(8Gb) nand chip, and we set the partitions
>> in the command line like this:
>>     #gpmi-nand:100m(boot),100m(kernel),1g(rootfs)
>>
>> In this case, the partition truncating occurs. The current code will
>> get the following result:
>>
>>      ----------------------------------
>>       root@...escale ~$ cat /proc/mtd
>>       dev:    size   erasesize  name
>>       mtd0: 06400000 00040000 "boot"
>>       mtd1: 06400000 00040000 "kernel"
>>      ----------------------------------
>>
>> It is obvious that we lost the truncated partition `rootfs` which should
>> be 824M in this case.
>>
>> Why? The old code sets the wrong partitions number when the truncating
>> occurs. This patch fixes it. Alao add a `break` to shortcut the code in this
>> case.
>>
>> After apply this patch, the result becomes:
>>      ----------------------------------
>>       root@...escale ~$ cat /proc/mtd
>>       dev:    size   erasesize  name
>>       mtd0: 06400000 00040000 "boot"
>>       mtd1: 06400000 00040000 "kernel"
>>       mtd2: 33800000 00040000 "rootfs"
>>      ----------------------------------
>>
>> We get the right result.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>
>
> Should this have CC to -stable?

It's ok to CC to stable.


thanks
Huang Shijie
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Artem Bityutskiy
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