Re: mtdpart add/del usage

[Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 6:08 PM Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it possible to retrieve (or re-create) the master device in an older
> kernel (3.18)?
> It does not have MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER config option.

You can backport the feature, it should be hard.

> I know it won't be able to del/add partitions, but being able to write
> to the whole,
> unpartitioned device would be *very* useful nonetheless.

MTD partitions are allowed to be overlapping. So you can create
a partition schema which contains one part over all others.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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