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[194.187.74.233]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id w19sm11769545lfl.55.2020.02.05.00.31.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:31:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: core: allow mask_flags to be set for mtd_add_partition To: Bruno Pena , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org References: <20191126212511.1218-1-brunompena@gmail.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Message-ID: <449b471c-3604-ffab-b75a-47ed119a5ba8@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:31:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191126212511.1218-1-brunompena@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20200205_003113_809832_059ACAE4 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.19 ) X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hi, On 26.11.2019 22:25, Bruno Pena wrote: > This patchs makes it possible to mask certain flags for new partitions (e.g. to make them read-only). > The change consists in the addition of a new argument "mask_flags" to "mtd_add_partition" that is passed on to the "allocate_partition". Your description answers "what?" but not "why?". This patch adds a new function argument that is never used. This seems quite pointless. ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/