Re: [PATCHv4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support.

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Hi,

On Wed, Mar 30 2011, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
>
> On Wed, Mar 30 2011, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
>> Unfortunately yes, although I am open for suggestions. An idea I
>> considered is to add a postfix for device partitions. So, for card 0,
>> the user area will remain mmcblk0, while boot partitions will be
>> mmcblk0b0 and mmcblk0b1, generic partitions will be mmcblk0g0, and so
>> on.
>
> Like Arnd, my main concern was around naming, breaking boot setups, and
> freaking people out by telling them that their cards have block devices
> that they can't usually see and not making it obvious where they came
> from.  :)
>
> Your "b/g" postfix solution appears to fix all of these, so I like it.
> We still have to think about where we expect users wondering what the
> "b" and "g" mean to go in order to find out..

Oh, one more thing -- if we go with the b/g postfix, what's the
intuition for requiring a Kconfig entry to turn this on?  Is there
any good argument against just turning it on for everyone, as long
as it's not affecting mmcblk*p* naming?

Thanks,

- Chris.
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