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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
	Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@gmail.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:01:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3R8oQXRQ8uq8p4P@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7526fc5a461a0d68eb1dab575f9c1950638fc21a.1668548123.git.daniel@makrotopia.org>

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 09:47:06PM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Add new GUID allowing to parse uImage.FIT stored in a GPT partition
> and map filesystem sub-image as sub-partitions.

NAK, we should not go out from the partition code to parse random
weird image formats.  If you want to support uImage.FIT just write
a tinty stackable block driver or dm table for it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-16  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-15 21:45 [PATCH v5 0/4] partition parser for U-Boot's uImage.FIT Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:45 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] block: add new flag to add partitions read-only Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:46 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] block: add partition parser for U-Boot uImage.FIT Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:47 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions Daniel Golle
2022-11-16  6:01   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-11-17  0:19     ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-17  6:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-17  6:50         ` Richard Weinberger
2022-11-17  6:59           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-17 13:59         ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-15 21:47 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] mtd: add option to enable scanning for partitions Daniel Golle

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