[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] add block device cache

Eric Nelson
2016-03-20T22:51:16Z

Thanks for the feedback Tom,

On 03/20/2016 03:13 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:33:04PM -0700, Eric Nelson wrote:
>> Thanks for the review(s) Stephen.
>>
>> On 03/17/2016 02:16 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 03/16/2016 03:40 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>
>>>
>>> A patch description would be useful here; the cover letter wouldn't be
>>> checked in.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah. Please hote the RFC.
>>
>> I was really hoping for some broader feedback about whether this
>> is a better approach than the more specialized ext4 extent cache.
>
> Well, I guess it comes down to how hard it is to also re-use this on say
> USB (another common case and one I assume you can test on your HW) since
> all of EXT4 and FAT and MMC and USB are fairly common and we should be
> able to address these with your approach, or at least be within "rework
> some other stuff and then.." distance.
>

It should be trivial to include this support for USB, SATA, IDE, or
any other block device, but not transparent.

I'm close to a V2 RFC patch so people can throw stones at an actual
implementation.

Regards,

Eric