From: Cai Zhiyong Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:20:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: block: support embedded device command line partition X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~52^2~274 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bab55417b10c95e6bff8cea315c315adfa009487;p=pandora-kernel.git block: support embedded device command line partition Read block device partition table from command line. The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c" About the partition verbose reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text] [yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()] Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong Cc: Karel Zak Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" Cc: Marius Groeger Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Brian Norris Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed