Don't use LIST_HEAD() but initialize the struct via INIT_LIST_HEAD() upon first call of add_mtd_partitions(). Otherwise this won't work on platforms where the relocation is broken (like MIPS or PPC).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese sr@denx.de --- drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c index 9a3bf6f..f010f5e 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ #include <linux/mtd/compat.h>
/* Our partition linked list */ -static LIST_HEAD(mtd_partitions); +struct list_head mtd_partitions;
/* Our partition node structure */ struct mtd_part { @@ -349,6 +349,14 @@ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master, u_int32_t cur_offset = 0; int i;
+ /* + * Need to init the list here, since LIST_INIT() does not + * work on platforms where relocation has problems (like MIPS + * & PPC). + */ + if (mtd_partitions.next == NULL) + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mtd_partitions); + printk (KERN_NOTICE "Creating %d MTD partitions on "%s":\n", nbparts, master->name);
for (i = 0; i < nbparts; i++) {