Re: [PATCH] [MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have thesame name v3

2009-04-30 Thread Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
Hello > > Ah!  After writing my original reply, I read the documentation, > and this had me confused. > > 4b08e14 looks wrong to me.  It also didn't update the documentation. So, what shall we do, revert 4b08e14 or apply this patch changing the name to "linux,mtd,partition" or similar ?

Re: [PATCH] [MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have thesame name v3

2009-04-29 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Your special "partition" isn't really a partition then, is it. Because of that, device nodes to represent your partitions doesn't work very well. I think that they work pretty well. With "real" devices you don't normally have two devices sitting at the same address. Since you _do_ have that w

Re: [PATCH] [MTD] ofpart: Partitions at same address cannot have thesame name v3

2009-04-29 Thread Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
Hello Segher Thanks for your comments. > > Your special "partition" isn't really a partition then, is it. > Because of that, device nodes to represent your partitions doesn't > work very well. I think that they work pretty well. Unfortunately, since 4b08e149c0e02e97ec49c2a31d14a0d3a02f8074 all