From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3XN+fDTjHz09qEE@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y3V9/pmHs7ypE7lb@makrotopia.org>
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:19:10AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> While weirdness is certainly subjective, uImage.FIT is not just a
> random image format but used by a great majority of headless embedded
> Linux devices out there. It's the default image format of many of the
> SDKs distributed by chip vendors such as Allwinner, Marvell, MediaTek,
> NXP, Qualcomm/Atheros, ...
"Look see, my weird format is used by all these companies building
crappy SOCs, it is not weird.."
> Please let me know if this sounds acceptable, so I won't put effort
> into implementing something which will then be rejected again after 5
> iterations on the mailing list for reasons which could have been
> expressed from the beginning. An RFC for this series was posted on
> 2022-04-25 [1], I wouldn't have worked months to fix all requests of
> other maintainers and tested it on a variety of different hardware
> knowing that the whole approach will be NACK'ed...
If people ignore something that is obviously broken they might just hope
for it to go away, becaue often it does.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-17 6:00 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
2022-11-17 0:19 ` Daniel Golle
2022-11-17 6:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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