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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c index 06d5b9d8853..02ce38fb1fc 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c @@ -356,6 +356,11 @@ static struct mtd_part *add_one_partition(struct mtd_info *master, slave->mtd.owner = master->owner; slave->mtd.backing_dev_info = master->backing_dev_info; + /* NOTE: we don't arrange MTDs as a tree; it'd be error-prone + * to have the same data be in two different partitions. + */ + slave->mtd.dev.parent = master->dev.parent; + slave->mtd.read = part_read; slave->mtd.write = part_write; @@ -508,7 +513,9 @@ out_register: * This function, given a master MTD object and a partition table, creates * and registers slave MTD objects which are bound to the master according to * the partition definitions. - * (Q: should we register the master MTD object as well?) + * + * We don't register the master, or expect the caller to have done so, + * for reasons of data integrity. */ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master, |