From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1YqHcT-0003Vr-8c for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 08:57:25 +0000 Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 10:57:02 +0200 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20150507085702.GR6325@pengutronix.de> References: <1430988346-25450-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430988346-25450-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs: be more lax with partition boundaries To: Uwe =?iso-8859-15?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 10:45:45AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote: > If a partition starts inside its parent device but is too big such that > it extends over the device boundary, just chop it to the device's end. > = > This matches the behaviour of Linux. > = > The motivation for this change is that it makes it possible in some > cases to have the partitioning in a device tree fixed and still allow > different flash sizes. When doing it someone is probably annoyed about the warning pretty soon. I know we just talked whether I would accept this patch, but now I realized that the correct way to extend the last partition to the end of the device is to use size 0. This works under barebox and Linux. Sascha -- = Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox