On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 at 22:45, Javier Martinez Canillas
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Now that dos_partition_t and struct partition are identical, the duplicated
> data structure definition in the part_efi.h header can just be removed.
>
> This results in a single, shared definition for MBR partition table
> entries, instead of having the same definition in two different places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
> ---
>

Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>

> (no changes since v1)
>
>  disk/part_efi.c    |  4 ++--
>  include/part_efi.h | 19 +++----------------
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/disk/part_efi.c b/disk/part_efi.c
> index fb1ed534f861..d8b17ec2e91a 100644
> --- a/disk/part_efi.c
> +++ b/disk/part_efi.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static inline u32 efi_crc32(const void *buf, u32 len)
>   * Private function prototypes
>   */
>
> -static int pmbr_part_valid(struct partition *part);
> +static int pmbr_part_valid(dos_partition_t *part);
>  static int is_pmbr_valid(legacy_mbr * mbr);
>  static int is_gpt_valid(struct blk_desc *desc, u64 lba, gpt_header 
> *pgpt_head,
>                         gpt_entry **pgpt_pte);
> @@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ int write_mbr_and_gpt_partitions(struct blk_desc *desc, 
> void *buf)
>   *
>   * Returns: 1 if EFI GPT partition type is found.
>   */
> -static int pmbr_part_valid(struct partition *part)
> +static int pmbr_part_valid(dos_partition_t *part)
>  {
>         if (part->sys_ind == EFI_PMBR_OSTYPE_EFI_GPT &&
>                 get_unaligned_le32(&part->start_sect) == 1UL) {
> diff --git a/include/part_efi.h b/include/part_efi.h
> index fb402df6f13e..2cea50880465 100644
> --- a/include/part_efi.h
> +++ b/include/part_efi.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>  #define _DISK_PART_EFI_H
>
>  #include <efi.h>
> +#include <part_dos.h>
>
>  #define MSDOS_MBR_SIGNATURE 0xAA55
>  #define MSDOS_MBR_BOOT_CODE_SIZE 440
> @@ -77,20 +78,6 @@
>  /* linux/include/efi.h */
>  typedef u16 efi_char16_t;
>
> -/* based on linux/include/genhd.h */
> -struct partition {
> -       u8 boot_ind;            /* 0x80 - active */
> -       u8 head;                /* starting head */
> -       u8 sector;              /* starting sector */
> -       u8 cyl;                 /* starting cylinder */
> -       u8 sys_ind;             /* What partition type */
> -       u8 end_head;            /* end head */
> -       u8 end_sector;          /* end sector */
> -       u8 end_cyl;             /* end cylinder */
> -       __le32 start_sect;      /* starting sector counting from 0 */
> -       __le32 nr_sects;        /* nr of sectors in partition */
> -} __packed;
> -
>  /* based on linux/fs/partitions/efi.h */
>  typedef struct _gpt_header {
>         __le64 signature;
> @@ -134,7 +121,7 @@ typedef struct _legacy_mbr {
>         u8 boot_code[MSDOS_MBR_BOOT_CODE_SIZE];
>         __le32 unique_mbr_signature;
>         __le16 unknown;
> -       struct partition partition_record[4];
> +       dos_partition_t partition_record[4];
>         __le16 signature;
>  } __packed legacy_mbr;
>
> @@ -153,7 +140,7 @@ struct efi_partition_info {
>         u8 system;
>         u8 reserved[7];
>         union {
> -               struct partition mbr;
> +               dos_partition_t mbr;
>                 gpt_entry gpt;
>         } info;
>  } __packed;
> --
> 2.53.0
>

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