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From: "S, Venkatraman" <svenkatr@ti.com>
To: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	awarkentin@vmware.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
	linus.walleij@linaro.org, james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com,
	sebras@gmail.com, Ulf.Hansson@stericsson.com,
	stefan.xk.nilsson@stericsson.com, per.forlin@stericsson.com,
	johan.rudholm@stericsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10] mmc : general purpose partition support.
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:57:18 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANfBPZ_ncmQmugQ+GBszE0OMvYV5T7W0Yo-dP5=JcoabNLaEeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y5x0k40l.fsf@bob.laptop.org>

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 04 2011, S, Venkatraman wrote:
>> Stupid question - This will affect all MMC instances, right ? Doesn't
>> this constitute a ABI breakage for user space scripts ?
>
> As I understand it, these partitions were simply not accessible before
> this patch:  we're not renaming mmcblkNpY to anything else, we're adding
> support for mmcblkNgpY partitions, which are part of the "MMC General
> Purpose Partition" spec, and are partitioned separately and not
> currently available to userspace.
>
> So, I don't see what would constitute breakage.  Does that clear it up?
>
It does - thanks !!

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-04 17:45 [PATCH v10] mmc : general purpose partition support Namjae Jeon
2011-10-04 18:19 ` S, Venkatraman
2011-10-04 18:25   ` Chris Ball
2011-10-04 18:25     ` Chris Ball
2011-10-04 18:27     ` S, Venkatraman [this message]
2011-10-04 20:20 ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-10-05  9:12 ` Adrian Hunter
2011-10-05 10:21   ` NamJae Jeon
2011-10-05 10:21     ` NamJae Jeon
2011-10-05 10:53     ` Adrian Hunter
2011-10-05 11:21       ` NamJae Jeon
2011-10-05 11:21         ` NamJae Jeon
2011-10-05 11:22         ` NamJae Jeon
2011-10-05 11:22           ` NamJae Jeon
2011-10-05 11:37           ` Adrian Hunter
2011-10-05 11:49             ` NamJae Jeon

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