From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v3] FAT: Make it possible to read from any file position
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:34:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5065C392.9070106@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <698056304.5413659.1348831948222.JavaMail.root@advansee.com>
On 09/28/2012 05:32 AM, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Thursday, September 27, 2012 6:20:55 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:14:56AM -0000, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote:
>>
>>> When storage devices contain files larger than the embedded RAM, it
>>> is useful to
>>> be able to read these files by chunks, e.g. for a software update
>>> to the
>>> embedded NAND Flash from an external storage device (USB stick, SD
>>> card, etc.).
>>>
>>> Hence, this patch makes it possible by adding a new FAT API to read
>>> files from a
>>> given position. This patch also adds this feature to the fatload
>>> command.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Beno?t Th?baudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
>>> Cc: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
>>> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
>>
>> With a reformatting of the commit message and making the changes
>> re-apply to master, I've applied this to u-boot/master, thanks!
>
> Perfect.
>
> I have a concern regarding the two patches that came in between:
> [1] http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=cfda5aeab89d73779e26f0d34cf10f64caa67431
> [2] http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=10a37fd7a40826c43a63591855346adf1a1ac02d
>
> Perhaps I'm wrong, and I admit I have not tested them, but looking at the code,
> it seems to me that [2] breaks the "-" in the following feature of [1]:
> "With the common function "dev:part" can come from the environment and a '-' can
> be used in that case."
I've sent a patch to fix this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 22:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/7] FAT: Make it possible to read from any file position Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-07-19 22:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-19 23:17 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-07-20 3:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-20 13:22 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 8/8] " Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-02 15:28 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-09-03 14:17 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-14 20:49 ` Tom Rini
2012-09-14 22:03 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-14 22:02 ` Tom Rini
2012-09-22 20:32 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-18 18:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3] " Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-27 16:20 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2012-09-28 11:32 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-28 15:34 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-09-28 16:17 ` Tom Rini
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