All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support.
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:46:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ei5o446f.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ipv044c6.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> (Chris Ball's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:43:21 -0400")

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 30 2011, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
>
> On Wed, Mar 30 2011, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
>> Unfortunately yes, although I am open for suggestions. An idea I
>> considered is to add a postfix for device partitions. So, for card 0,
>> the user area will remain mmcblk0, while boot partitions will be
>> mmcblk0b0 and mmcblk0b1, generic partitions will be mmcblk0g0, and so
>> on.
>
> Like Arnd, my main concern was around naming, breaking boot setups, and
> freaking people out by telling them that their cards have block devices
> that they can't usually see and not making it obvious where they came
> from.  :)
>
> Your "b/g" postfix solution appears to fix all of these, so I like it.
> We still have to think about where we expect users wondering what the
> "b" and "g" mean to go in order to find out..

Oh, one more thing -- if we go with the b/g postfix, what's the
intuition for requiring a Kconfig entry to turn this on?  Is there
any good argument against just turning it on for everyone, as long
as it's not affecting mmcblk*p* naming?

Thanks,

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
One Laptop Per Child

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-19 11:18 MMC/eMMC partitioning support Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-19 11:18 ` [RFC] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-19 12:13   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-21 14:19   ` [PATCH] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-22  3:54   ` [PATCHv3] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-22 21:11   ` MMC partitions support (4th revision) Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-22 21:11   ` [PATCHv4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-29 22:45     ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-30 12:03       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 20:07         ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-30 22:43           ` Chris Ball
2011-03-30 22:46             ` Chris Ball [this message]
2011-03-30 23:18               ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-30 23:34                 ` Chris Ball
2011-03-31  6:57                   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-31 11:01                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 19:17                       ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-31 19:37                         ` Chris Ball
2011-03-31 20:01                           ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-31 20:03                           ` Chris Ball
2011-03-31 20:01                             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-01  9:23                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 14:52                                 ` Chris Ball
2011-04-01  9:21                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 11:17           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 19:29             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-01 10:38               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 18:42                 ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-01 19:25                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 19:42                     ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-04 12:22                       ` [PATCH] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-04 11:52                         ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 1/4] MMC: Rename erase_timeout to cmd_timeout_ms Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 2/4] MMC: SDHCI R1B command handling + MMC_CAP_ERASE Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-12  9:06                             ` Dong, Chuanxiao
2011-04-12 18:05                               ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-13  1:59                                 ` Dong, Chuanxiao
2011-04-13  5:44                                   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-15 21:34                                     ` Cyril Hrubis
2011-08-10 13:30                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 3/4] MMC: Allow setting CMD timeout for CMD6 (SWITCH) Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 4/4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 22:00                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-11 22:10                               ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 22:22                                 ` Chris Ball
2011-04-11 22:18                                   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 23:10                                     ` [patchv4 1/2] MMC: block.c cleanup for host claim/release Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 23:10                                     ` [patchv4 2/2] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 23:20                                     ` [patchv3 4/4] " Chris Ball
2011-04-11 23:24                                       ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21  1:13                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-21  1:30                               ` Chris Ball
2011-04-21  5:09                                 ` Philip Rakity
2011-04-21  5:22                                   ` Chris Ball
2011-04-21  5:31                                     ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21  6:07                                       ` [RFC] MMC: Block: Ensure hardware partitions don't mess with mmcblk device naming Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21  8:17                                         ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21 14:44                                           ` Chris Ball
2011-04-22  0:20                                         ` Chris Ball
2011-04-22  3:46                                           ` [PATCH] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-22  3:50                                             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-22 22:34                                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-21  4:31                               ` [patchv3 4/4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Jaehoon Chung

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m3ei5o446f.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org \
    --to=cjb@laptop.org \
    --cc=andreiw@motorola.com \
    --cc=arnd@arndb.de \
    --cc=linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.