Re: [PATCH] mmc: card: Do not scan boot partitions

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Johan Rudholm <jrudholm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2012/6/20 Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Would it be impossible to add a partition table to mmcblkXbootY,
>> or just unlikely?
>
> I believe this is just an unlikely scenario since the boot partitions
> are supposed to contain boot code and also because of their relatively
> small size (a few MBs), but there is no technical problem. Perhaps it
> should be left up to the user?

Like we add a Kconfig bool option "support partition scanning on boot
partitions" and then we default that to "n", so systems that really
want to do that can turn it on the day they need it.

Could you augment the patch like that?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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