On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedeki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 13:21 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote: >> There are typically two types to set the mtd partitions: >> >> <1> set with the `size`, such as >> gpmi-nand:100m(boot),100m(kernel),1g(rootfs) >> >> <2> set with the `offset`, such as >> gpmi-nand:100m@0(boot),100m@100m(kernel),1g@200m(rootfs) >> gpmi-nand:1g@200m(rootfs),100m@0(boot),100m@100m(kernel) >> >> If we mix these two types, such as: >> gpmi-nand:100m@0(boot),100m(kernel),1g@200m(rootfs) >> gpmi-nand:1g@200m(rootfs),100m@0(boot),100m(kernel) >> >> It's hard to understand the cmdline. And also it is hard to sort the >> partitions in this mixed type. So we explicitly forbid the mixed type. > > So "explicitly forbid" is just to add a "do not do this" comment? >
This is the simplest way. ;) It's make code complicated if we change the code to forbid this mixed type. Best Regards Huang Shijie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/