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Bug#765621: Limit on number of MMC partitions



On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 15:34 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
> 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.

This change is committed and should be in the next update.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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