> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Norris [mailto:computersforpe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:12 AM > To: Andrew Morton > Cc: Caizhiyong; Karel Zak; linux-...@lists.infradead.org; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Wanglin (Albert); Artem Bityutskiy; Shmulik > Ladkani; > Huang Shijie > Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add command line partition parser > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Andrew Morton > <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:02:17 +0000 Caizhiyong <caizhiy...@huawei.com> wrote: > > > >> move the command line parser to a separate module, and change it into > >> library-style code. > >> > >> reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/6/550 > > The most recent patch is an addendum to this linked patch then? > > > Well OK. But to prove the library's usefulness and to generally clean > > up the kernel, someone needs to sign up to the task of converting > > drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c to use this code. > > > > I've been hopefully cc'ing various MTD people but am not being > > overwhelmed with waves of enthusiasm ;) > > "I've been" implies that you have done so prior to this email. And > "people" implies more than one person. I see that you CC'd David > Woodhouse over a week ago, but he's fairly silent these days on MTD > things. It's Artem or me who handle most of the day-to-day of MTD. And > this is the first time I've seen this! (BTW, please include > linux-...@lists.infradead.org for anything involving MTD.) > > This seems reasonable, and I'd be willing to work with this proposal. > > Caizhiyong, can you submit a clear single patch (or series of > patches), CC'd to linux-mtd at least? Then we can see about supporting > it in MTD. It doesn't look too difficult, but I need to check that it > faithfully mimics the capability we currently rely on. There have been > previous discussions on changing it, but this was rejected in favor of > allowing more flexibility. Here's part of one such conversation: > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-August/043599.html > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-September/043825.html > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-December/045322.html > > So I would recommend: > (1) consider carefully the implications of your command-line format > now, rather than later > (2) if you want MTD to use it, it needs to support the features we use now
It is fully functional reference MTD, :-). > > Some particular cases to consider: overlapping partitions (how do > block devices handle overlapping partitions?), out-of-order > specification, zero sized partitions, mixed syntax (some specified > with an offset, some not), multiple '-' partitions. I think the 'offset' just is used to hide some MTD space. There are two way: 1) redefine the 'offset' as a gap between forward partition and next partition. 2) add code forbid command line partitions overlapping and out-of-order. I recommend 1), it seems to solve those problem(overlapping and out-of-order), but it will affect habit. > > Anyway, if you resend, we can review. > > Thanks, > Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/