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

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Message-ID: <1346228646.2848.437.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:24:06 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>
Cc:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...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

While appreciating Shmulik's attention to details, I vote this way:

On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 02:47 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote:
> Could Artem or David point us a direction about this?
> [1]  Should the unsorted partitions be supported?

No, it is asking for troubles.

> [2] And what should we do when we meet a 1GB nand, and the cmdline is
>       gpmi-nand:100m(root),100m(kernel),1g(rootfs),1g(user),-(rest) 

Drop 'user' and 'rest' - I've sent some explanations in the previous
e-mail.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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