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.
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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