[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH7] microblaze - ROMFS adapt files

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <fa686aa40709110814m5024c66bo536ff12d0b8be7cd@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Michal Simek <Monstr@seznam.cz> wrote:
> > DESC:  ROMFS support files and sorted names in Makefiles
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
> >
> > Note; I think that we can start process with redesigning all FS support
> 
> I'm still not really fond of this approach.  Repurposing CONFIG_JFFS2
> to add more and more filesystems is not a good approach.  I don't
> recommend merging this as is.

Agreed. In any case it's not a bug fix and thus will not go into
1.3.0.

> Ideally, the whole filesystem handling should be reworked into a
> single API, but I understand that it's a non-trivial amount of work.
> However, at the very least, ROMFS should be configured with a separate
> CONFIG_xxx macro.

Agreed, too.

> > -               /* check partition type for cramfs */
> > -               fsname = (cramfs_check(part) ? "CRAMFS" : "JFFS2");
> > +               /* check partition type for JFFS2, cramfs, romfs */
> > +               if (cramfs_check(part)) {
> > +                       fsname = "CRAMFS";
> > +               } else if (romfs_check(part)) {
> > +                       fsname = "ROMFS";
> > +               } else {
> > +                       fsname = "JFFS2";
> > +               }
> 
> This will get unwieldy in a real hurry.  This should probably be
> reworked into a table of filesystem handlers which binds all the
> driver callbacks.

Indeed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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