From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek) Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 09:18:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] Patches to allow consistent mmc / mmcblk numbering w/ device tree In-Reply-To: <20160429181248.GW19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1461951139-6109-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> <20160429181248.GW19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20160504071801.GA17045@amd> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri 2016-04-29 19:12:48, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:32:15AM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote: > > This series picks patches from various different places to produce what > > I consider the best solution to getting consistent mmc and mmcblk > > ordering. > > > > Why consistent ordering and why not just use UUIDs? IMHO consistent > > ordering solves a few different problems: > > NAK. Really. Use UUIDs, that's the proper solution here. Except that UUIDs do not solve the problem. You have just booted of nfsroot, and you want to format u-SD card in the external slot. How do you do that? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html