From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A50AC433FE for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=Rk0BXZOYWd56GwvB7/G3w8R6cI9fhzsKWsXrdi1NExU=; b=No+BRxtkBj7A9R IYJ/RlbxgZGUaD9MBg0/I7tCX6uB/rO2K6agiALIH12ZY47BGvg7eJr0Lo4vGA7uHX5XuXgdNaAoF DjFyAsjI/VZFDrW3TsFvVbTPuzvsNFnfUp4hGQk3iStr27EaFmFSxrAbgj9699SzHkhQ5l2Bbc7S+ 92p068olbDMmTJvCpsaC/W/DCb9dS+fLzhTRwXg1AOrPlYopzMAAamporeRkee1eEW4lI5MaNodOm mj6AwgkRXOIR61SkSI0cBNgU1ls1+DojpwYLyGRgXUl80UObqBB5LZuOhtf7KFr6Mg00N+V97VOdg Ika6EmhsCqrUjf/LXScw==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ovXwr-00AcYD-DF; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:29 +0000 Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ovXwn-00AcUt-IU; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:25 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Golle Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Matthew Wilcox , "Martin K. Petersen" , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Michal Orzel , 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 Message-ID: References: <7526fc5a461a0d68eb1dab575f9c1950638fc21a.1668548123.git.daniel@makrotopia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.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. ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/