patch-2.4.19 linux-2.4.19/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h

• Lines: 37
• Date: Fri Aug 2 17:39:45 2002
• Orig file: linux-2.4.18/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
• Orig date: Tue Jun 12 10:30:27 2001

diff -urN linux-2.4.18/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h linux-2.4.19/include/linux/mtd/partitions.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *
  * This code is GPL
  *
- * $Id: partitions.h,v 1.6 2001/03/17 17:10:21 dwmw2 Exp $
+ * $Id: partitions.h,v 1.8 2002/03/08 16:34:36 rkaiser Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef MTD_PARTITIONS_H
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@
  * 	will extend to the end of the master MTD device.
  * offset: absolute starting position within the master MTD device; if 
  * 	defined as MTDPART_OFS_APPEND, the partition will start where the 
- * 	previous one ended.
+ * 	previous one ended; if MTDPART_OFS_NXTBLK, at the next erase block.
  * mask_flags: contains flags that have to be masked (removed) from the 
  * 	master MTD flag set for the corresponding MTD partition.
  * 	For example, to force a read-only partition, simply adding 
  * 	MTD_WRITEABLE to the mask_flags will do the trick.
  *
  * Note: writeable partitions require their size and offset be 
- * erasesize aligned.
+ * erasesize aligned (e.g. use MTDPART_OFS_NEXTBLK).
  */ 
 
 struct mtd_partition {
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@
 	u_int32_t size;		/* partition size */
 	u_int32_t offset;		/* offset within the master MTD space */
 	u_int32_t mask_flags;	/* master MTD flags to mask out for this partition */
+	struct mtd_info **mtdp;	/* pointer to store the MTD object */
 };
 
+#define MTDPART_OFS_NXTBLK	(-2)
 #define MTDPART_OFS_APPEND	(-1)
 #define MTDPART_SIZ_FULL	(0)