partitions: add prompt and help text for CONFIG_PARTITION_MANIPULATION So far, CONFIG_PARTITION_MANIPULATION was only selected by CONFIG_CMD_PARTED and influenced repartitioning support. Now that it's used to guard the feature of reparsing partition tables, it makes sense to give it a help text and a prompt for devlopment usage. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- common/Kconfig | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig index 97a03217eac9..67cbbf5197da 100644 --- a/common/Kconfig +++ b/common/Kconfig @@ -888,7 +888,15 @@ config PARTITION prompt "Enable Partitions" config PARTITION_MANIPULATION - bool + bool "Runtime reparsing of partition table" if COMPILE_TEST + help + Say y here to have barebox reparse the partition table automatically + when it's rewritten. This is useful when using the parted command + or when writing full disk images that change the existing partitions. + + Reparsing the partition table will delete existing partitions and thus + may break users that don't do proper reference counting. For this + reason, this option is currently disabled by default. source "common/partitions/Kconfig" -- 2.39.2
