On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:17:59PM +0200, Sam Protsenko wrote: > Allow passing the partition name to "part start" and "part size" > commands, so we can avoid magic numbers in the environment. > > Consider one real use-case: in include/environment/ti/boot.h we have > commands like these: > > setenv boot_part 9 > part start mmc ${mmcdev} ${boot_part} boot_start > part size mmc ${mmcdev} ${boot_part} boot_size > mmc read ${loadaddr} ${boot_start} ${boot_size} > > Now suppose that we have changed the partition table and boot_part now > is 10. We will need to fix commands above. And anyone who relies on > these boot commands, will need to change them accordingly, too (this was > an actual case in our lab while testing Linux boot on Android > environment). > > By providing the option to pass partition name instead, we fix mentioned > issue, by eliminating the necessity to use magic numbers. > > Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protse...@linaro.org> > Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <lu...@denx.de>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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