On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2011 20:42:36 Andrei Warkentin wrote: >> Right now they are exposed as separate devices. This lets the user >> pick whatever usage they >> see fit (can format it directly, or can partition it), while the >> naming (mmcblk0boot0, mmcblk0boot1, mmcblkgp0p1 for first partition on >> gp0, for example) conveys that the entries are for device partitions. > > Ok, sounds good. How do they show up in sysfs then? I think ideally > a gp device should be a child of the regular device, just like a partition, > and then it can have further children. That way, a user application can > easily find out which ones belong together. Right now, it shows up on the same level as mmcblk0, but I'll fix that (this is why I wanted the first portion to contain actual device name, e.g. mmcblk0boot0, but you're right, I should fix the inheritance) A -- 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
