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From: Andrea Adami <andrea.adami@gmail.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: "Nam T. Nguyen" <namnguyen@chromium.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Daniel Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd-utils: Add nandpart to add/delete partition
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:53:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAQYJAv2j8zVDL3G=Ux-1k4YxpT2Su9gUeOiww647b=kP5fQ+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150304192453.GO18140@ld-irv-0074>

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Brian Norris
<computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:51:19AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:45:44AM -0800, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Nam T. Nguyen <namnguyen@chromium.org> wrote:
>> > > Add a simple utility to exercise BLKPG ioctl.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Nam T. Nguyen <namnguyen@chromium.org>
>> >
>> > Suggestion: rename to flash_part.c . This utility is not
>> > nand-specific, and flash_ is used for general MTD utilities.
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> I'll retract that a bit. I think mtdpart might make more sense.
> (Following after mtdinfo, rather than flash_erase.) And technically, not
> all MTD's are flash.
>
> Brian
>
> ______________________________________________________
> Linux MTD discussion mailing list
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/

While fiddling with BLKPG and mtd, would it be useful to implement
BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION to have repartitoning on the fly? Maybe with a
separate tool like i.e. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/60224/ ?

Regards
Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-06 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-09 22:13 [PATCH v2] mtd-utils: Add nandpart to add/delete partition Nam T. Nguyen
2015-03-04 18:45 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2015-03-04 18:51   ` Brian Norris
2015-03-04 19:24     ` Brian Norris
2015-03-06 15:53       ` Andrea Adami [this message]
2015-03-04 18:58 ` Brian Norris

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