From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1W0tsf-0006Ao-Qh for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:13:14 +0000 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:07:49 +0100 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20140108140748.GL6750@pengutronix.de> References: <20140108024539.GA13274@san0.fossix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140108024539.GA13274@san0.fossix.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make number of GPT partitions a configurable option To: Santosh Sivaraj Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.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 > --- > 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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox