When sandbox is used with hostfs we won't have a block device, but still
must set up the filesystem type before any filesystem operation, such as
loading a file. Add a function to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
---
(no changes since v4)
Changes in v4:
- Add new patch with a function to set the filesystem type
fs/fs.c | 5 +++++
include/fs.h | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fs.c b/fs/fs.c
index b812597ced9..6de1a3eb6d5 100644
--- a/fs/fs.c
+++ b/fs/fs.c
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ static int fs_dev_part;
static struct disk_partition fs_partition;
static int fs_type = FS_TYPE_ANY;
+void fs_set_type(int type)
+{
+ fs_type = type;
+}
+
static inline int fs_probe_unsupported(struct blk_desc *fs_dev_desc,
struct disk_partition *fs_partition)
{
diff --git a/include/fs.h b/include/fs.h
index e2beba36b98..b43f16a692f 100644
--- a/include/fs.h
+++ b/include/fs.h
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ int do_ext2load(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
char *const argv[]);
*/
int fs_set_blk_dev(const char *ifname, const char *dev_part_str, int fstype);
+/**
+ * fs_set_type() - Tell fs layer which filesystem type is used
+ *
+ * This is needed when reading from a non-block device such as sandbox. It does
+ * a similar job to fs_set_blk_dev() but just sets the filesystem type instead
+ * of detecting it and loading it on the block device
+ *
+ * @type: Filesystem type to use (FS_TYPE...)
+ */
+void fs_set_type(int type);
+
/*
* fs_set_blk_dev_with_part - Set current block device + partition
*
--
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