[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] disk: part: implement generic function part_get_info_by_name()

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 03:06:42PM +0200, Petr Kulhavy wrote:

> So far partition search by name has been supported only on the EFI partition
> table. This patch extends the search to all partition tables.
> 
> Rename part_get_info_efi_by_name() to part_get_info_by_name(), move it from
> part_efi.c into part.c and make it a generic function which traverses all part
> drivers and searches all partitions (in the order given by the linked list).
> 
> For this a new variable struct part_driver.max_entries is added, which limits
> the number of partitions searched. For EFI this was GPT_ENTRY_NUMBERS.
> Similarly the limit is defined for DOS, ISO, MAC and AMIGA partition tables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Kulhavy <brain at jikos.cz>

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

-- 
Tom
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