"Chaiken, Alison" <ali...@she-devel.com> wrote: > On 2017-05-30 00:37, Lothar Waßmann wrote: > [ SNIP] > >> +#define MAX_SEARCH_PARTITIONS 16 > > Why the hard limit to 16 partitions? > > A standard Android system will jump right in your face with this limit. > > Lothar, I'm working on making the other changes you suggested. > Meanwhile, the answer to this question is that I copied the macro from a > header file in 2015.07, which is the version for which I developed the > patches. I saw no equivalent value in this latest release of Das > U-Boot. Do you have a better suggestion? Is there a similar macro > elsewhere that I failed to discover? > I'm just concerned, that the limit may be too low for a certain class of systems and see no reason why it shouldn't be set higher. There is no memory allocation involved that would consume more memory with a higher limit.
I'v seen, the macro is defined in disk/part.c. Maybe for consistency this should be defined in some header file and used in the original place and your patch. Lothar Waßmann -- ___________________________________________________________ Ka-Ro electronics GmbH | Pascalstraße 22 | D - 52076 Aachen Phone: +49 2408 1402-0 | Fax: +49 2408 1402-10 Geschäftsführer: Matthias Kaussen Handelsregistereintrag: Amtsgericht Aachen, HRB 4996 www.karo-electronics.de | i...@karo-electronics.de ___________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
