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authorBrandon Maier <brandon.maier@collins.com>2022-11-03 09:12:17 -0500
committerDavid Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>2022-11-07 08:28:49 +0100
commit4a84311e4706da5823e20db107809a334708e171 (patch)
tree8db1ab814fad46da8541e7168f4fb332c414a3d4
parent5ed8f1b0b72b22754e3025f9c74b37feac6fd720 (diff)
misc-utils: mtdpart: document partition of size 0
If the partition size passed in to the BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION ioctl is 0, Linux will make the partition fill to the end of the device[1]. Document this feature in the help. [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0.6/source/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c#L254 Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@collins.com> Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
-rw-r--r--misc-utils/mtdpart.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/mtdpart.c b/misc-utils/mtdpart.c
index ba35d87..c8cd79b 100644
--- a/misc-utils/mtdpart.c
+++ b/misc-utils/mtdpart.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static void display_help(int status)
" -V, --version Output version information and exit\n"
"\n"
"START location and SIZE of the partition are in bytes. They should align on\n"
-"eraseblock size.\n",
+"eraseblock size. If SIZE is 0 the partition will go to end of MTD device.\n",
PROGRAM_NAME
);
exit(status);