On Thursday 31 March 2011, Andrei Warkentin wrote: > Plus what if you do intend to have a file system there? Other than > complexity and non-obvious usage, I don't see > anything gained by this. I wouldn't worry about ways of misusing this. > As I've said, in the only case it matters (some embedded device > booting from the boot partition), the user would have to gain root > access, build a kernel giving access to the boot partitions and be > able to boot into it. The character device (or sysfs_bin_file actually) would only make sense if we know that there is no reason to put a file system on it. The idea of that is that we intentionally treat it like a firmware flash, not like a block device because that is how it's used. If there is a reasonable chance that people actually want to have a file system in the boot partition, it should by all means be a block device. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
