[PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: n900 needs MMC slot names for legacy user space

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Apr 27 07:17:03 PDT 2016


* Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> [160427 01:50]:
> On 27 April 2016 at 01:46, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> > Let's pass the slot names in pdata like the legacy code does.
> > Once we have a generic DT binding for the slot names we can
> > switch to that.
> 
> I am not sure we ever will get a DT binding accepted for the slot
> name. It seem far from being a HW description. :-)

Hmm it does describe where on the the device the MMC is
located though as in "external" or "internal".

> Instead, the long term and proper solution, is to enable userspace to
> be able to use UUID/PARTID instead.

OK.

> Until that happens, I guess this will have to do.

Yeah especially as that has been working with the legacy booting
for years.

Regards,

Tony



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