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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Cc: cjb@laptop.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, awarkentin@vmware.com,
	adrian.hunter@intel.com, james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com,
	sebras@gmail.com, Ulf Hansson <Ulf.Hansson@stericsson.com>,
	Stefan Nilsson XK <stefan.xk.nilsson@stericsson.com>,
	Per Forlin <per.forlin@stericsson.com>,
	johan.rudholm@stericsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mmc : general purpose partition support.
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:21:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdZM-F-E_RUu4JTd-1J8UeQWXiekBcnMf7Jp7m07B8SYVQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316840820-2014-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> wrote:

> It allows gerneral purpose partitions in MMC Device.
> And I try to simpliy make mmc_blk_alloc_parts using mmc_part structure suggested by Andrei Warkentin.
> After patching, we can see general purpose partitions like this.
>> cat /proc/partitions
>          179 0 847872 mmcblk0
>          179 192 4096 mmcblk0gp4
>          179 160 4096 mmcblk0gp3
>          179 128 4096 mmcblk0gp2
>          179 96  1052672 mmcblk0gp1

We notice there are 32 minors between 128 and 96,
how are these allocated?

>          179 64  1024 mmcblk0boot1
>          179 32  1024 mmcblk0boot0

Does this mean that each GP-partition can contain an MBR and thus several
subpartitions so we get things like:

mmcblk0gp1p1, mmcblk0gp1p2...

?

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-24  5:07 [PATCH v2] mmc : general purpose partition support Namjae Jeon
     [not found] ` <4E80BE05.40401@linux.intel.com>
2011-09-28  1:13   ` NamJae Jeon
2011-09-28  1:13     ` NamJae Jeon
2011-09-28 11:21 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2011-09-28 13:50   ` NamJae Jeon
2011-09-29  6:47     ` Linus Walleij
2011-09-29  8:35       ` NamJae Jeon
2011-09-28 16:08 ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-09-29  1:03   ` NamJae Jeon

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