From bab55417b10c95e6bff8cea315c315adfa009487 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cai Zhiyong Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:20:09 -0700 Subject: block: support embedded device command line partition Read block device partition table from command line. The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c" About the partition verbose reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text] [yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()] Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong Cc: Karel Zak Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" Cc: Marius Groeger Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Brian Norris Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- block/partitions/check.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'block/partitions/check.c') diff --git a/block/partitions/check.c b/block/partitions/check.c index 19ba207ea7d12..9ac1df74f6994 100644 --- a/block/partitions/check.c +++ b/block/partitions/check.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include "efi.h" #include "karma.h" #include "sysv68.h" +#include "cmdline.h" int warn_no_part = 1; /*This is ugly: should make genhd removable media aware*/ @@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ static int (*check_part[])(struct parsed_partitions *) = { adfspart_check_ADFS, #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARTITION + cmdline_partition, +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION efi_partition, /* this must come before msdos */ #endif -- cgit v1.2.3