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From: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:54:17 +0800
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fs/fat: add a parameter: allow_whole_dev to
 fat_register_device()
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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.

Best Regards,
Josh Wu