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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] FAT: check for partition 0 not 1 for whole-disk fs
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:36:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506F6EE8.7060308@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506F6CE4.8080802@ti.com>

On 10/05/2012 05:27 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 10/05/12 16:17, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> 
>> The recent switch to use get_device_and_partition() from 
>> do_fat_ls() broke the ability to access a FAT filesystem
>> directly on a whole device; FAT only works within a partition on
>> a device.
> 
>> This change makes e.g. "fatls mmc 0:0" work; explicitly
>> requesting partition ID 0 is something that
>> get_device_and_partition() fully supports. However,
>> fat_register_device() expects partition ID 1 to be used in the
>> full-disk case; partition ID 1 was previously implicitly
>> specified when the user didn't actually specify a partition ID.
>> Update fat_register_device() to expect the correct ID.
> 
>> This change does imply that if a user explicitly executes "fatls 
>> mmc 0:1" then this will fail, and may be a change in behaviour.
> 
> So wait, you can't list device 0, bus 1 after this patch?

That's partition 1 not bus 1.

In the context of having a raw FAT filesystem on a device with no
partition table, the partition specification "0:1" doesn't work before
or after this patch; I believe (if it worked at all ever before) it
was broken by the previous get_device_and_partition() rework.

If you do have a partition table, then "0:1" works just fine
with/without this patch.

>> Note that this still prevents "fatls mmc 0:auto" from working.
>> The next patch will fix that.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> --- Tom, this 
>> series is really a bug-fix and should go in before the 9-long 
>> series I posted earlier today. I'll need to rebase that other 
>> series on top of this and repost, once any comments are
>> addressed.
> 
> Should this also go in the release?

I imagine so; that's why I rebased it below the previous series I sent
which I assume isn't going into this release.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-05 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-05 23:17 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] FAT: check for partition 0 not 1 for whole-disk fs Stephen Warren
2012-10-05 23:17 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] disk: part_dos: don't claim whole-disk FAT filesystems Stephen Warren
2012-10-08 18:47   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2012-10-05 23:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] FAT: check for partition 0 not 1 for whole-disk fs Tom Rini
2012-10-05 23:36   ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-10-05 23:39     ` Tom Rini
2012-10-05 23:46       ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-08 18:47 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini

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