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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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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