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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make number of GPT partitions a configurable option
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:07:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140108140748.GL6750@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140108024539.GA13274@san0.fossix.org>

Hi Santosh,

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:15:39AM +0530, Santosh Sivaraj wrote:
> Theoritically there is no limit for the partitions that can be created
> based on EFI/GPT, so make the number of partitions that can be visible
> in barebox a configurable option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
> ---
>  common/partitions/Kconfig  | 5 +++++
>  common/partitions/parser.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/partitions/Kconfig b/common/partitions/Kconfig
> index 90238ad..f3353dd 100644
> --- a/common/partitions/Kconfig
> +++ b/common/partitions/Kconfig
> @@ -31,3 +31,8 @@ config PARTITION_DISK_EFI_GPT_COMPARE
>  	depends on PARTITION_DISK_EFI
>  	default y
>  	bool "EFI: GPT: compare primary and Alternate GPT header for validity"
> +
> +config MAX_PARTITIONS
> +	depends on PARTITION_DISK_EFI
> +	int "Maximum of partitions needed to be supported on a GPT"
> +	default 8

Can we instead allocate the partitions dynamically? This limitation to
eight partitions we currently have is not nice, but making it
configurable is not a proper fix.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-08 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08  2:45 Santosh Sivaraj
2014-01-08 14:07 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2014-01-09  7:29   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
     [not found]     ` <20140109160641.GA7102@san0.fossix.org>
2014-01-09 16:29       ` Santosh Sivaraj
2014-01-10  8:02         ` Sascha Hauer
2014-01-10  8:24           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2014-01-10  8:49             ` Sascha Hauer

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