Re: [PATCH] Make number of GPT partitions a configurable option

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>]

On 15:07 Wed 08 Jan     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 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.

agreed but a limit will be good too

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> Sascha
> 
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