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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@huawei.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>,
	Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add command line partition parser
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:32:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <520C9235.5070104@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C3050A4DBA34F345975765E43127F10F1C064375@szxeml512-mbx.china.huawei.com>

On 08/15/2013 12:45 AM, Caizhiyong wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Norris [mailto:computersforpeace@gmail.com]
...
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 06:16:04AM +0000, Caizhiyong wrote:
>>> I want to use the MTD command line partition method on block devices (eMMC).
>>> It is very suitable for embedded systems. I think, in embedded system partition
>> method,
>>> if somebody need some feature on MTD device, he may be also need it on block device.
>>> so I fully functional reference MTD command line partition.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> I'm curious: have you seen any need for a similar arrangement via
>> device-tree? See, for example, drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.
>
> So far, I have no seen. We mainly use ARM. For ARM, device-tree is a new thing.

But device-tree is *the* thing for ARM going forward, and the kernel 
command line can get unwieldy (and beyond its limits) pretty quickly 
like this.

>>> I hope extend the flexibility to block device.
>>
>> Sure. I'll try to review the full patch soon and test out integrating
>> it with MTD.
>
> If there is no problem, I will send my next patch, mtd cmdline parts use cmdline-parser lib.

We will get some reviews on this soon (no time for me tonight). Do you 
already have a mtd patch? If so, you might as well post it for review as 
well.

Thanks,
Brian

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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: "Wanglin \(Albert\)" <albert.wanglin@huawei.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add command line partition parser
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:32:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <520C9235.5070104@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C3050A4DBA34F345975765E43127F10F1C064375@szxeml512-mbx.china.huawei.com>

On 08/15/2013 12:45 AM, Caizhiyong wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Norris [mailto:computersforpeace@gmail.com]
...
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 06:16:04AM +0000, Caizhiyong wrote:
>>> I want to use the MTD command line partition method on block devices (eMMC).
>>> It is very suitable for embedded systems. I think, in embedded system partition
>> method,
>>> if somebody need some feature on MTD device, he may be also need it on block device.
>>> so I fully functional reference MTD command line partition.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> I'm curious: have you seen any need for a similar arrangement via
>> device-tree? See, for example, drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.
>
> So far, I have no seen. We mainly use ARM. For ARM, device-tree is a new thing.

But device-tree is *the* thing for ARM going forward, and the kernel 
command line can get unwieldy (and beyond its limits) pretty quickly 
like this.

>>> I hope extend the flexibility to block device.
>>
>> Sure. I'll try to review the full patch soon and test out integrating
>> it with MTD.
>
> If there is no problem, I will send my next patch, mtd cmdline parts use cmdline-parser lib.

We will get some reviews on this soon (no time for me tonight). Do you 
already have a mtd patch? If so, you might as well post it for review as 
well.

Thanks,
Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-15  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-03  9:57 [PATCH] block: support embedded device command line partition Caizhiyong
2013-08-05 22:22 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-06 10:53   ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-07  0:10     ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-13  6:02   ` [PATCH] block: add command line partition parser Caizhiyong
2013-08-14 22:57     ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-14 22:57       ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-15  0:11       ` Brian Norris
2013-08-15  0:11         ` Brian Norris
2013-08-15  0:30         ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-15  0:30           ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-15  3:38         ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-15  3:38           ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-15  5:00           ` Brian Norris
2013-08-15  5:00             ` Brian Norris
2013-08-15  6:16             ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-15  6:16               ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-15  7:09               ` Brian Norris
2013-08-15  7:09                 ` Brian Norris
2013-08-15  7:45                 ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-15  7:45                   ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-15  8:32                   ` Brian Norris [this message]
2013-08-15  8:32                     ` Brian Norris
2013-08-15 15:52 ` [PATCH] block: support embedded device command line partition Stephen Warren
2013-08-16  2:54   ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-16 16:02     ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-19  8:36       ` Caizhiyong
2013-08-19 16:05         ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-17 11:15 ` Linus Walleij
2013-09-17 13:08   ` Caizhiyong

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