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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make number of GPT partitions a configurable option
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:49:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140110084944.GY6750@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140110082424.GB21626@ns203013.ovh.net>

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 09:24:24AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 09:02 Fri 10 Jan     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:59:33PM +0530, Santosh Sivaraj wrote:
> > > * Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org> wrote (on 2014-01-09 21:36:41 +0530):
> > > 
> > > adding list, missed it.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Can we instead allocate the partitions dynamically? This limitation to
> > > > > > eight partitions we currently have is not nice, but making it
> > > > > > configurable is not a proper fix.
> > > > > 
> > > > > agreed but a limit will be good too
> > > > > 
> > > > > Best Regards,
> > > > > J.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Sascha
> > > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > We could keep a configurable maximum, with a high default, but do the allocation
> > > > dynamically. I will try to send in a patch, we can discuss how it needs to be
> > > > done over it.
> > 
> > It shouldn't be configurable in Kconfig. That's not a question a user
> > should have to answer when configuring barebox. I high default would be
> > fine with me though since memory usually is an infinite resource in
> > barebox.
> 
> I'm more thiking of a broken EFI GPT that have 1000s of partition
> 
> do we really need to handle that

Indeed it seems we can assume that something is wrong when a device has
1000s of partitions. So where do we set the border? 64?

Sascha

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-10  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08  2:45 Santosh Sivaraj
2014-01-08 14:07 ` Sascha Hauer
2014-01-09  7:29   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
     [not found]     ` <20140109160641.GA7102@san0.fossix.org>
2014-01-09 16:29       ` Santosh Sivaraj
2014-01-10  8:02         ` Sascha Hauer
2014-01-10  8:24           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2014-01-10  8:49             ` Sascha Hauer [this message]

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