[U-Boot] [PATCH] fs/fat: add a parameter: allow_whole_dev to fat_register_device()

Tom Rini
2014-06-14T20:07:34Z

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:54:17PM +0800, Josh Wu wrote:
> Hi, Stephen
>
> On 6/13/2014 12:07 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >On 06/12/2014 09:33 PM, Josh Wu wrote:
> >>Dear Wolfgang
> >>
> >>On 6/12/2014 4:52 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >>>Dear Josh Wu,
> >>>
> >>>In message <53995100.9080307@atmel.com> you wrote:
> >>>>In U-Boot when we access a partition of a device, we use 'ifname
> >>>>dev:part' format.
> >>>>For instance: 'mmc 0:1' means the MMC card's #1 partition of the
> >>>>device #0.
> >>>Don;t we also support plain "ifname dev", i. e. without partition
> >>>specification?
> >>The problem is we only support "ifname dev" on command line mode or the
> >>filesystem call which calls get_device_and_partition().
> >Why not just replace the calls to fat_register_device() with calls to
> >get_device_and_partition() (perhaps some wrapper is needed to make the
> >APIs match). That way, someone (U-Boot config file author I suppose) can
> >always specify exactly what they want, without needing any
> >non-deterministic fallbacks.
> yes, that is the exactly I will do. Thanks.

Yes, I also agree, thanks!

--
Tom
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