On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM, John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org> wrote: > From: San Mehat <s...@google.com> > > This patch has been carried in the Android tree for quite some > time and is one of the few patches required to get a mainline > kernel up and running with an exsiting Android userspace. So I > wanted to submit it for review and consideration if it should > be merged. > > For partitions, add new uevent parameters 'PARTN' which > specifies the partitions index in the table, and 'PARTNAME', > which specifies PARTNAME specifices the partition name of a > partition device. > > Android's userspace uses this for creating device node links from the > partition name and number: ie: > /dev/block/platform/soc/by-name/system > or > /dev/block/platform/soc/by-num/p1 > > One can see its usage here: > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/init/devices.cpp#355 > and > https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/init/devices.cpp#494 > > Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> > Cc: Rom Lemarchand <rom...@google.com> > Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-t...@android.com> > Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com> > Cc: har...@redhat.com > Cc: k...@redhat.com > Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <d...@android.com> > [Dropped NPARTS and reworded commit message for context] > Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
Ping? Any thoughts on this? Am I missing someone on the CC list I should be including? thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
