From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752867Ab3IQNIk (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:08:40 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.65]:15101 "EHLO szxga02-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752657Ab3IQNIj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:08:39 -0400 From: Caizhiyong To: Linus Walleij CC: Andrew Morton , Karel Zak , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Wanglin (Albert)" , Quyaxin , Ulf Hansson Subject: RE: [PATCH] block: support embedded device command line partition Thread-Topic: [PATCH] block: support embedded device command line partition Thread-Index: AQHOs5dE8N2p1FK8g0etXwnsG6H9bpnJzGAg Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:08:24 +0000 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: zh-CN, en-US Content-Language: zh-CN X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.67.223.48] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I saw this patch appear in kernel v3.12-rc1, and it's nice since it's exactly > what we need. So needed that we proposed it in 2010: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127425650923757&w=2 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127599718024364&w=2 > > Is this patch inspired by Ulfs patch? (I can see the code is different, > but the cmdline argument is the same for example.) Some credit > could have been proper in that case. I have not searched other patch, English reading/writing is not an easy thing for me. Thank Ulf Hansson. He was the first one who thought of this method. > > Just asking: sometimes wheels do get reinvented. > > Yours, > Linus Walleij