- heavily copied from register_persistant_environment which was
Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4: rename function and move to envfs.h
v3: also fix the typo in the printf
v2: fix typo in persistent
common/environment.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/envfs.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
diff --git a/common/environment.c b/common/environment.c
index e8d623f..78cd45c 100644
--- a/common/environment.c
+++ b/common/environment.c
@@ -363,3 +363,43 @@ out:
free(buf_free);
return ret;
}
+
+#ifdef __BAREBOX__
+/**
+ * Try to register an environment storage on a device's partition
+ * @return 0 on success
+ *
+ * We rely on the existence of a usable storage device, already attached to
+ * our system, to get something like a persistent memory for our environment.
+ * We need to specify the partition number to use on this device.
+ * @param[in] devname Name of the device
+ * @param[in] partnr Partition number
+ * @return 0 on success, anything else in case of failure
+ */
+
+int envfs_register_partition(const char *devname, unsigned int partnr)
+{
+ struct cdev *cdev;
+ char *partname;
+
+ if (!devname)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ cdev = cdev_by_name(devname);
+ if (cdev == NULL) {
+ pr_err("No %s present\n", devname);
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+ partname = asprintf("%s.%d", devname, partnr);
+ cdev = cdev_by_name(partname);
+ if (cdev == NULL) {
+ pr_err("No %s partition available\n", partname);
+ pr_info("Please create the partition %s to store the env\n", partname);
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ return devfs_add_partition(partname, 0, cdev->size,
+ DEVFS_PARTITION_FIXED, "env0");
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(envfs_register_partition);
+#endif
diff --git a/include/envfs.h b/include/envfs.h
index 2db55ed..e9372b3 100644
--- a/include/envfs.h
+++ b/include/envfs.h
@@ -96,4 +96,6 @@ int envfs_save(char *filename, char *dirname);
/* defaults to /dev/env0 */
extern char *default_environment_path;
+int envfs_register_partition(const char *devname, unsigned int partnr);
+
#endif /* _ENVFS_H */
--
1.7.11.7
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