On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, there is no way to find out the offset of an mtd partition by > a driver. This might be needed by external hardware. > > For example, a flash containing the firmware of an external device that > is also accessible by the main cpu/kernel. > > The flash is big enough to have two partitions with 2 versions of the > firmware, so we can have a safe upgrade. > > Once the flash has been updated we need the real offset, so we can write > it on the external device registers.
Can you please also send a patch which shows the usage of this new function by a driver? -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
