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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: card: Don't show eMMC RPMB and BOOT areas in
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To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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From:   Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@mentor.com>
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Date:   Tue, 6 Mar 2018 18:17:36 +0530
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On Friday 02 March 2018 06:23 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Harish Jenny K N
> <harish_kandiga@mentor.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@mentor.com>
>>
>> Since RPMB area is accessible via special ioctl only and boot areas
>> are unlikely to contain any partitions, exclude them all from listing
>> in /proc/partitions. This will hide them from various user-level
>> software (e.g. fdisk), thus avoiding unnecessary access attempts.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@mentor.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@mentor.com>
> Makes sense to me, at least it makes the problem smaller not bigger.
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>


Any other comments/inputs on this ?


Thanks,
Harish Jenny K N