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 <[email protected]> <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
