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mtd: add a flags for partitions which should just leave smth. after them

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Add support for MTDPART_OFS_RETAIN: such partitions start at the current
offset, take as much space as possible, but rain part->size bytes after
the end of the partitions for other parts. Primarily this is intended
for ts72xx arm platforms cleanup.

Artem: tweaked the patch a bit

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-06 18:04:14 +04:00
committed by Artem Bityutskiy
parent bf5140817b
commit 1a31368bf9
2 changed files with 17 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
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@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
* will extend to the end of the master MTD device.
* offset: absolute starting position within the master MTD device; if
* defined as MTDPART_OFS_APPEND, the partition will start where the
* previous one ended; if MTDPART_OFS_NXTBLK, at the next erase block.
* previous one ended; if MTDPART_OFS_NXTBLK, at the next erase block;
* if MTDPART_OFS_RETAIN, consume as much as possible, leaving size
* after the end of partition.
* mask_flags: contains flags that have to be masked (removed) from the
* master MTD flag set for the corresponding MTD partition.
* For example, to force a read-only partition, simply adding
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@ struct mtd_partition {
struct nand_ecclayout *ecclayout; /* out of band layout for this partition (NAND only) */
};
#define MTDPART_OFS_RETAIN (-3)
#define MTDPART_OFS_NXTBLK (-2)
#define MTDPART_OFS_APPEND (-1)
#define MTDPART_SIZ_FULL (0)