On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:07 PM, John Stultz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM, John Stultz <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: San Mehat <[email protected]> >> >> 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 <[email protected]> >> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <[email protected]> >> Cc: Android Kernel Team <[email protected]> >> Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <[email protected]> >> [Dropped NPARTS and reworded commit message for context] >> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]> > > > 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 [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Hi Jens, Are you able to take this into your tree? Should akpm carry it instead? Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
