From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd/intel-spi: Support cmdline-based partition
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:48:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200327164802.GN2564@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200327171907.7a7ffc73@xps13>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:19:07PM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Mika,
>
> Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote on Fri, 27 Mar
> 2020 17:56:08 +0200:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't think it is good idea to change PCI device name like that.
> >
> > Instead the MTD cmdline parser should be teach to handle names like this
> > properly.
>
> It is a bit more complicated than that since parsers have been using
> this syntax for a long time and, more importantly, it means
> potentially updating all bootloaders.
>
> I am not against updating the parser, but the s/:/|/ solution proposed
> before is rather undescriptive and it is hard to find an alternative
> character that would have a meaning here.
I'm completely unfamiliar with these but would escape char work here? I
mean if you want ":" to be parsed literally then you pass "\:" in the
command line. That should work with the existing and also allow
supporting SPI NOR controllers on PCI bus.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-23 19:58 [PATCH 1/1] mtd/intel-spi: Support cmdline-based partition ron minnich
2020-03-23 23:19 ` ron minnich
2020-03-25 17:34 ` ron minnich
2020-03-25 17:34 ` ron minnich
2020-03-27 15:48 ` ron minnich
2020-03-27 15:56 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-03-27 16:19 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-03-27 16:48 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2020-03-27 16:52 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-03-27 17:05 ` ron minnich
2020-03-27 17:16 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-03-27 17:39 ` ron minnich
2020-03-27 23:53 ` ron minnich
2020-03-30 6:08 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-03-30 7:27 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-03-30 15:53 ` ron minnich
2020-04-01 7:41 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-04-01 15:42 ` ron minnich
2020-04-01 19:49 ` ron minnich
2020-04-27 9:16 ` Boris Brezillon
2020-04-27 9:49 ` Boris Brezillon
2020-04-27 14:41 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-04-27 18:48 ` ron minnich
2020-04-27 18:50 ` ron minnich
2020-04-27 18:56 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-04-27 18:59 ` ron minnich
2020-04-27 19:21 ` Boris Brezillon
2020-04-27 19:31 ` ron minnich
2020-04-27 20:31 ` ron minnich
2020-04-27 21:20 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-03-27 16:53 ` ron minnich
2020-03-27 16:15 ` Miquel Raynal
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