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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] block: add uImage.FIT block partition driver
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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.