[U-Boot-Users] mtdparts

Andreas Engel Andreas.Engel at marconi.com
Thu Sep 8 12:49:23 CEST 2005


On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:54:59 +0200 Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>We willprovide an extension soon; we're going to create an additional
>variable 'mtddevnum'.
>
>Note: the numbering will be exactly as partitions are listed  in  the
>$mtdparts  variable.  This  way  user  can fully control the indexing
>sequence but it is also a bit more troublesome you have to take  care
>about the order of devices in $mtdparts.
>
>But the greater flexibilty seems to me to be a big advantage over any
>fixed scheme which cannot know about the init sequence in  the  Linux
>kernel.
>
>Is this OK with you?

That's ok with me, too. We won't change our current implementation anyway.

Regards,
  Andreas Engel




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