From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 833BBC4332F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S239283AbiKQGAo (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:00:44 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51558 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239246AbiKQGAi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:00:38 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A58A16581; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=Ka0zWX28jwmPVoBvV9gqCxIV7SNbOuU8UYsaU9048Q8=; b=D6quLTD6qQFeVVAaaaR6f+qtrB z/Jom9O6meODBzgm1GH6/KunvdEvNQY7XIMs3gRtEKvbWXXa0owllsCKvC3e/LR+J2U+yyyudYQU3 cIwBElUPrpB+w4DOQzPLlDLltNf0nD842kVjXsMvIjNHdVMo9VKHypAipsl/xkIqF2x1vRzJ302e8 A+rOQp3h5vyXKSjjFD6NWl6ApWw0PmKNAX6b2mmxML0xZTIy8NJqVDcXaaN1Ti/enDG8WX6Jw7rcd 9YwizRkHVVMoYixOy/i5yrS50o27AXxVMY1VrnEc8rWUL6FMm3kFLxHWgwyF5e1vRlq1eNC3QjxmH RyZ8oQUg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ovXwn-00AcUt-IU; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:25 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Golle Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Matthew Wilcox , "Martin K. Petersen" , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Michal Orzel , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions Message-ID: References: <7526fc5a461a0d68eb1dab575f9c1950638fc21a.1668548123.git.daniel@makrotopia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:19:10AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote: > While weirdness is certainly subjective, uImage.FIT is not just a > random image format but used by a great majority of headless embedded > Linux devices out there. It's the default image format of many of the > SDKs distributed by chip vendors such as Allwinner, Marvell, MediaTek, > NXP, Qualcomm/Atheros, ... "Look see, my weird format is used by all these companies building crappy SOCs, it is not weird.." > Please let me know if this sounds acceptable, so I won't put effort > into implementing something which will then be rejected again after 5 > iterations on the mailing list for reasons which could have been > expressed from the beginning. An RFC for this series was posted on > 2022-04-25 [1], I wouldn't have worked months to fix all requests of > other maintainers and tested it on a variety of different hardware > knowing that the whole approach will be NACK'ed... If people ignore something that is obviously broken they might just hope for it to go away, becaue often it does. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A50AC433FE for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=Rk0BXZOYWd56GwvB7/G3w8R6cI9fhzsKWsXrdi1NExU=; b=No+BRxtkBj7A9R IYJ/RlbxgZGUaD9MBg0/I7tCX6uB/rO2K6agiALIH12ZY47BGvg7eJr0Lo4vGA7uHX5XuXgdNaAoF DjFyAsjI/VZFDrW3TsFvVbTPuzvsNFnfUp4hGQk3iStr27EaFmFSxrAbgj9699SzHkhQ5l2Bbc7S+ 92p068olbDMmTJvCpsaC/W/DCb9dS+fLzhTRwXg1AOrPlYopzMAAamporeRkee1eEW4lI5MaNodOm mj6AwgkRXOIR61SkSI0cBNgU1ls1+DojpwYLyGRgXUl80UObqBB5LZuOhtf7KFr6Mg00N+V97VOdg Ika6EmhsCqrUjf/LXScw==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ovXwr-00AcYD-DF; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:29 +0000 Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ovXwn-00AcUt-IU; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:25 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Golle Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Matthew Wilcox , "Martin K. Petersen" , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Michal Orzel , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions Message-ID: References: <7526fc5a461a0d68eb1dab575f9c1950638fc21a.1668548123.git.daniel@makrotopia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:19:10AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote: > While weirdness is certainly subjective, uImage.FIT is not just a > random image format but used by a great majority of headless embedded > Linux devices out there. It's the default image format of many of the > SDKs distributed by chip vendors such as Allwinner, Marvell, MediaTek, > NXP, Qualcomm/Atheros, ... "Look see, my weird format is used by all these companies building crappy SOCs, it is not weird.." > Please let me know if this sounds acceptable, so I won't put effort > into implementing something which will then be rejected again after 5 > iterations on the mailing list for reasons which could have been > expressed from the beginning. An RFC for this series was posted on > 2022-04-25 [1], I wouldn't have worked months to fix all requests of > other maintainers and tested it on a variety of different hardware > knowing that the whole approach will be NACK'ed... If people ignore something that is obviously broken they might just hope for it to go away, becaue often it does. ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/