On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 13:21 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote:
> + *
> + * Note:
> + * If you choose to set the @offset for the <partdef>, please set all
> + * the partitions with the same syntax, such as:
> + *     gpmi-nand:100m@0(boot),100m@100m(kernel),1g@200m(rootfs)
> + *
> + * Please do _NOT_ set the partitions like this:
> + *     gpmi-nand:100m@0(boot),100m(kernel),1g@200m(rootfs)
> + * The `kernel` partition does not set with the @offset, this is not permitted.
>   */

I guess it is indeed OK to sort the partitions, just makes things a lot
simpler. But we probably then should also do the following:

1. Make sure there is only one partition without offset. If there are
several - error out.
2. Check that partitions do not intersect - I did not notice that we do
this in the code.

So AFAICS, this patch is not needed and we better have the following
patches:

1. Add sorting
2. Add a check that partitions do not overlap and there is only one
offset-less partition.

How does this sound?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy