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Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap

From Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap
Date 2017-05-19 08:00 +0200
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Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> writes:

> On Wed 2017-05-17 14:37:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 May 2017 14:06:13 +0200 Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sun 2017-04-02 12:05:36, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> > > Fix overlapping NAND partitions.
>> > > 
>> > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
>> > 
>> > Ping? Two partitions at same place are bad news...
>> 
>> Please expand on "bad news"?  What are the runtime effects of this
>> change?  Decisions about which kernel(s) to patch depend on this info.
>
> Well... two partitions at same place. If you use one, you will corrupt
> information on the other one.
>
> OTOH this moves partition around (so that they don't overlap) so it is
> probably not stable candidate.
>
> I guess this is not huge issue; people using these boards probably
> have custom dts changes, anyway...

Or no one's even using it anymore.

I can take this via powerpc, I won't mark it for stable etc.

cheers

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Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> - 2017-05-17 14:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-05-17 23:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> - 2017-05-18 11:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-05-19 08:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> - 2017-05-19 11:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-05-19 12:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> - 2017-05-19 13:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] powerpc/sequoia: fix NAND partitions not to overlap Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-05-22 11:20 +0200

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