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

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Hi Linus,

2012/6/20 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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?

Sure, I'll send an updated version with this functionality!

//Johan
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