<div dir="ltr">Hi Bill,<div><br></div><div style>I had a look at the following patchs.</div><div style><a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/303418">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/303418</a><br>
</div><div style><a href="http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-May/035368.html">http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-May/035368.html</a><br></div><div style><a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/35293">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/35293</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>I think the only way to define different partition layout is to pass it as command line argument to kernel.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Refer this for mtdparts argument description.</div>
<div style><a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c?id=refs/tags/v3.8.7">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c?id=refs/tags/v3.8.7</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>I am thinking that the device file /dev/mtdx will be present since the char diver code is still existing in the kernel mainline.(line no 1254)</div><div style><br></div><div style><a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c?id=refs/tags/v3.8.7">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c?id=refs/tags/v3.8.7</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>&nbsp;</div><div style><br></div><div style>Regards,</div><div style>Yuva</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:19 PM, bill4carson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bill4carson@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill4carson@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, All<br>
<br>
It seems &quot;MTD partitioning support&quot; CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS has been deleted some time ago, at least not exist on Linux-3.8.0-rc7+.<br>
And there is no /dev/mtdx neither, so how do I make it happen?<br>
<br>
thanks in advance!<br>
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--bill<br>
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