In message 20070530105256.GA7649@michl.2n.cz you wrote:
If you fix anything, then please by making it compatible with the poublic U-Boot source tree,i. e. by using the mtdparts command for this purpose.
Here it might be usefull to avoid modifications of certain partition sizes. For example partition containing environment shouldn't be modified, because code which read it from U-Boot has size and offset hardcoded, therefore modifying it will result to bad surprise...
The user might prepare for the installation of a new version of U-Boot where the environment is in new sectors (for example, because U-Boot has grown after adding new features - been there before), or for switching from single to redundant environment, or ...
So actually the user might want to do some clever thing. Please don;t prevent him from doing that.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk