Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-23 Thread Sascha Hauer
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:01:53AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 05/23/2014 03:23 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > ... > > Speaking of which my preferred solution is another one. As a bootloader > > developer it really annoys me that I don't have the possibility to tell > > the kernel to boot a partic

Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-23 Thread Stephen Warren
On 05/23/2014 02:29 AM, Michael Olbrich wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:23:27PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 05/22/2014 12:21 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote: >>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:16:35AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: On 05/22/2014 09:30 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > Hi all, > >>

Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-23 Thread Stephen Warren
On 05/23/2014 03:23 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: ... > Speaking of which my preferred solution is another one. As a bootloader > developer it really annoys me that I don't have the possibility to tell > the kernel to boot a particular device. What I really want to do is to > pass a devicetree phandle to

Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-23 Thread Sascha Hauer
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:23:27PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > >> Does it solve the following, which AFAIK has always been the primary > >> argument against aligning block device IDs with controller IDs: > >> > >> - User inserts SD card into MMC controller ID (or alias) 1. > >> - /dev/mmcblk1 no

Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-23 Thread Michael Olbrich
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:23:27PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 05/22/2014 12:21 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:16:35AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > >> On 05/22/2014 09:30 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> The wish to have persistent MMC block device n

Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-22 Thread Stephen Warren
On 05/22/2014 12:21 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:16:35AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 05/22/2014 09:30 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The wish to have persistent MMC block device names for passing a suitable >>> root=/dev/mmcblkX option came up several tim

Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-22 Thread Sascha Hauer
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:16:35AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 05/22/2014 09:30 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The wish to have persistent MMC block device names for passing a suitable > > root=/dev/mmcblkX option came up several times already and has been > > discussed > > at

Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-22 Thread Stephen Warren
On 05/22/2014 09:30 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > Hi all, > > The wish to have persistent MMC block device names for passing a suitable > root=/dev/mmcblkX option came up several times already and has been discussed > at least in these threads: > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kerne

adding aliases to mmc ... again

2014-05-22 Thread Sascha Hauer
Hi all, The wish to have persistent MMC block device names for passing a suitable root=/dev/mmcblkX option came up several times already and has been discussed at least in these threads: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-July/109984.html https://www.mail-archive.com/linux