Bug#765621: Limit on number of MMC partitions

[Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>]

Hi,

On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:17:30 +0200 Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at> wrote:
> during a test of DI-B2 on an embedded device, at the partitioning stage,
> selecting
>    1) "Guided - use entire disk" mode, and then
>    2) "Separate var,tmp,home partitions"
> failed with an error when attempting to process partition #8.
> 
> This is because no /dev/mmcblk0p8 existed. Unless I'm mistaken, this is
> because the config [1] has:
> 
>     CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK_MINORS=8
> 
> Could this be increased to at 16 so that this guided partition mode can
> succeed?

any update on this? Without this increase, this standard installation
mode is broken, which is a pity.

Christian