From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Delivery-date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:27:48 +0200 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by lore.white.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1qTJ0G-00CDpe-Rt for lore@lore.pengutronix.de; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:27:48 +0200 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qTJ0F-0002fk-4a for lore@pengutronix.de; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:27:47 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding: MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-Id:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From: Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=qUsEqz4jjj8cb1A9L3khVwWHN2nVhez/wmi5Up8F6EM=; b=gvaA+d75qmwNZqK5nPGP7C0m+R FzQoDGrvNOCJpySMyCnTIsj2Cf3BKQvSStEmYfDdH03FJ3K7tckVvB4Ef/8JvXBpj5r96KpgN1d+W Qvi/A+tilgE5SVBm0xevd2RWniHPvdr507LMz3INDEkPc5z+EE9Djo2EdDQgEv2ZKMgfqD/W+E+yI Jl169jR1wiJOcaPDHthlMksMtggb3+43pecPqBheQegZne8M+R0BkpXLBtQiZVI040UE+uesomW0H SK1hEWvTrWMZwGEXp1jOg+s6Tr0/hv3PhAGVQcOALyDJcWkHoGghgGdcpxV6zFEvUyFcQI4PjNs31 B0034MNQ==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qTIz1-0028NR-06; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:26:31 +0000 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qTIyw-0028LS-2u for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:26:28 +0000 Received: from drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:0:c01:1d::a2]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qTIyp-0002V4-WC; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:26:20 +0200 Received: from [2a0a:edc0:0:1101:1d::ac] (helo=dude04.red.stw.pengutronix.de) by drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1qTIyp-001wyq-Bj; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:26:19 +0200 Received: from rhi by dude04.red.stw.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1qTIyo-008YLg-2J; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:26:18 +0200 From: Roland Hieber To: barebox@lists.infradead.org Cc: Roland Hieber , Ahmad Fatoum Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 11:26:16 +0200 Message-Id: <20230808092617.2037996-3-rhi@pengutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 In-Reply-To: <20230808092617.2037996-1-rhi@pengutronix.de> References: <20230808092617.2037996-1-rhi@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230808_022626_936326_101BB2FA X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 12.81 ) X-BeenThere: barebox@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "barebox" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2607:7c80:54:3::133 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: barebox-bounces+lore=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on metis.ext.pengutronix.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] doc: user: state: update note about redefining existing partitions X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 08 May 2019 21:11:16 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de) Fixes: ec34c2f5333adfee4724 (2023-06-07, "cdev: have devfs_add_partition return existing identical partition, not NULL") Suggested-by: Ahmad Fatoum Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber --- Documentation/user/state.rst | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user/state.rst b/Documentation/user/state.rst index 594c2c15945b..7f4547f75507 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/state.rst +++ b/Documentation/user/state.rst @@ -542,10 +542,15 @@ SD/eMMC and ATA The following devicetree node entry defines some kind of SD/eMMC memory and a partition at a specific offset inside it to be used as the backend for the -*state* variable set. Note that currently there is no support for on-disk -partition tables. Instead, an ofpart partition description must be used. You -have to make sure that this partition does not conflict with any other partition -in the partition table. +*state* variable set. + +.. note:: + + If the medium has an on-disk partition table, the device tree partition + must either be identical in start offset and size to the MBR/GPT partition + or it must reside in non-partitioned space. If this constraint is not + satisfied, barebox will emit an error message and refuse to register + the device tree partition. .. code-block:: text -- 2.39.2