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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] block: add uImage.FIT block partition driver
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:58:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3XNbE/UEGzLFOkd@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c38e4f7a60312bb04be89d532ad06c024f8270ca.1668644705.git.daniel@makrotopia.org>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:45:05AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Add a small block driver which allows exposing filesystem sub-images
> contained in U-Boot uImage.FIT images as block partitions.
> The driver is intended for system using the U-Boot bootloader and
> requires the user to specify the lower block device to be specified
> as module parameter 'lower_dev'.

Umm, this is is not a block device driver.  A block device driver
would take in bios and the upper devices it creates and then submit
them to the lower devices.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-11-17  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-17  0:42 [RFC PATCH 0/4] block: uImage.FIT filesystem image mapper Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  0:42 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] init: move block device helpers from init/do_mounts.c Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  5:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-19 16:03     ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-22 12:37       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-09 17:00         ` Daniel Golle
2022-12-12  9:03           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-12 11:02             ` Daniel Golle
2022-12-13  6:48               ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-13 12:45                 ` Daniel Golle
2022-12-14 16:43                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-14 20:01                     ` Daniel Golle
2022-12-15  8:09                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-30 14:43         ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  0:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] block: add new flag to add partitions read-only Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  0:44 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] blkdev: add function to add named read-only partitions Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  5:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-17 17:12     ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  0:45 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] block: add uImage.FIT block partition driver Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  5:58   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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