Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd/intel-spi: Support cmdline-based partition

[ron minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I've done a quick prototype of using () as one way to specify the
ID. The mtparts can look like this (tested)

mtdparts=(0000:00:1f.5)25165824(BIOS),-(squashfs)

The text in () can be pretty arbitrary; only ) is disallowed.
It's about 10 more lines of code in cmdlinepart.c and that's it.
Further, the existing syntax is still supported:
mtdparts=id:parts

what do you think?

thanks

ron

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:39 AM ron minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> yeah, :: is not so bad, but you've got a lot of corner cases as you check for ::
> mtdparts=0:
> for one example.
>
> Covering all the ways things can go wrong gets messy. You can pretty
> much guarantee all those corner cases will get exercised ...
>
> And people are going to mess this up and end up with hard to debug errors:
> mtdparts=0000::0:1f.3:parts
>
> That could be a hard error to spot.
>
> I still wonder if we should not just define some character as
> available in addition to :. I realize | was pretty awful, but ... is
> there some other character we might use? I kind of like the simplicity
> of the current scheme; there really would be no issue had it been
> almost anything but a : :-)
>
> But if the sense is that :: is the way to go, I can give it a shot.
>
> ron
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:16 AM Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:05:52AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > > I did try the \ thing but found it a bit tricky to work with, with
> > > lots of potential for simple errors.
> > >
> > > It would require cmdlines like this
> > > mtdparts=0000\:00\:0.1f:etcetc
> > >
> > > A lot of these mtdparts definitions are produced by scripts and
> > > Makefiles and there are many, many places where \\ have a way of
> > > vanishing.
> >
> > Right. One option would be to use the printf() style escaping and make
> > :: to be literal : in the same way %% is literal %.

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