Re: [RFC PATCH] mmc: block: Support the fixed index for mmcblk with aliases nodes

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On 04/04/2016 09:14 PM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 4 April 2016 at 04:08, Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Are there any other opinion for this RFC patch?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Jaehoon Chung
>>
>> On 03/30/2016 09:15 AM, Shawn Lin wrote:
>>> 在 2016/3/29 18:49, Jisheng Zhang 写道:
>>>> Hi Jaehoon,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:43:34 +0900 Jaehoon Chung wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This patch is just RFC. I want to know opinions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, index of mmcblk is allocated in accordance with probing time.
>>>>> If want to use the mmcblk1 for some device, it can use alias.
>>>>>
>>>>> aliases {
>>>>>     mmc0 = &mmc0;    /* mmcblk0 for eMMC */
>>>>>     mmc1 = &mmc2;    /* mmcblk1 for SD */
>>>>>     mmc2 = &mmc1;    /* mmcblk2 for SDIO*/
>>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> I like this feature and we do need it. In the past, we have to put emmc dt node
>>>> before the sd node, but on our platform, the register base of sdhc host for emmc
>>>> is higher than the one for sd, putting emmc dt node before sd looks a bit
>>>> strange, but we have no better solutions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> :) That is also what I suffered currently. I have to prepare two
>>> seperate firmware with two diff fstab files to assign the mount point
>>> since sometime I need to boot from sd, but sometimes from emmc....
>>> With this patch, I only need to dtc a new dtb... quite simple.
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jisheng
> 
> I am not immediately opposed to this patch, although let me think a
> bit more about it.
> 
> What I would like to understand is why UUID/PARTUUID isn't working for
> your case. Did you try to use that?

I have used with UUID/PARTUUID/PARTLABEL and etc.. I think it's not problem.
But that is why some guys wants to use the fixed index.
(Almost all SoCs are still using "root=mmcblk0pX" in bootloader.)

I'm considering more what is better. :)

Best Regards,
Jaehoon Chung

> 
> Kind regards
> Uffe
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