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Diffstat (limited to 'block/partitions')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/partitions/Kconfig | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/partitions/cmdline.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/partitions/efi.c | 7 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/block/partitions/Kconfig b/block/partitions/Kconfig index 87a32086535d..9b29a996c311 100644 --- a/block/partitions/Kconfig +++ b/block/partitions/Kconfig @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ config SYSV68_PARTITION config CMDLINE_PARTITION bool "Command line partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED - select CMDLINE_PARSER + select BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER help - Say Y here if you would read the partitions table from bootargs. + Say Y here if you want to read the partition table from bootargs. The format for the command line is just like mtdparts. diff --git a/block/partitions/cmdline.c b/block/partitions/cmdline.c index 56cf4ffad51e..5141b563adf1 100644 --- a/block/partitions/cmdline.c +++ b/block/partitions/cmdline.c @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ * Copyright (C) 2013 HUAWEI * Author: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> * - * 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 + * Read block device partition table from the command line. + * Typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices. + * It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed * by absolute address of data on the block device. * Users can easily change the partition. * * The format for the command line is just like mtdparts. * - * Verbose config please reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" + * For further information, see "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" * */ diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c index 1eb09ee5311b..a8287b49d062 100644 --- a/block/partitions/efi.c +++ b/block/partitions/efi.c @@ -222,11 +222,16 @@ check_hybrid: * the disk size. * * Hybrid MBRs do not necessarily comply with this. + * + * Consider a bad value here to be a warning to support dd'ing + * an image from a smaller disk to a larger disk. */ if (ret == GPT_MBR_PROTECTIVE) { sz = le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba); if (sz != (uint32_t) total_sectors - 1 && sz != 0xFFFFFFFF) - ret = 0; + pr_debug("GPT: mbr size in lba (%u) different than whole disk (%u).\n", + sz, min_t(uint32_t, + total_sectors - 1, 0xFFFFFFFF)); } done: return ret; |