Russell, On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, because you haven't taken the time to think and consider my > reply, which gives you insight into how your "problem" is no > different from the situation that everyone else has, where it > isn't a problem. I have certainly considered it. > I think the "problem" here is that you've got used to coreboot > doing something that very few other boot loaders do, namely it > automatically extracting a rootfs UUID for you. The rest of the > world doesn't have that luxury. Earlier in this thread Rob nicely proposed a solution to my TFTP. I agreed that was a nice solution. I can certainly use it. Certainly there are many places where UUIDs are awesome. ...but that's still no reason to assign a random number when a sane and logical numbering system exists for MMC parts on a given SoC. > So, instead, you want to stuff more code into the kernel to work > around what you think is a problem - a problem which seems to be > unique to yourself. Not so much. I think many people have expressed interest in something like this. It seems unlikely to be unique. > The UUID and label solutions were created by x86 people to work > around exactly this dynamic device problem, and as my previous > replies have shown, it is superior to fixing the device assignment > as you're trying to do. Sure. They don't have the luxury of having a simple and consistent numbering so they're forced to use UUIDs for booting and have the extra mental work of mapping IDs to physical hardware. ...so they're forced to use UUIDs. > However, I don't expect that you'll like this answer, and you'll > probably just re-post your same question after each and every > paragraph rather than considering whether the already existing > solutions could solve your "problem". So I'm just wasting my time. Really I just reposted it several times because I notice that you seem to ignore many points of my emails. I was really hoping to get you to address this point. I notice that you still didn't. Either you are just trying to annoy me, or you don't have an answer to how my patch series hurts you. > This is my last reply. Excellent. I look forward to your silence. -Doug -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
