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Petersen" , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Wolfram Sang , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] block: add uImage.FIT block partition driver Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,PDS_OTHER_BAD_TLD, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:45:05AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote: > Add a small block driver which allows exposing filesystem sub-images > contained in U-Boot uImage.FIT images as block partitions. > The driver is intended for system using the U-Boot bootloader and > requires the user to specify the lower block device to be specified > as module parameter 'lower_dev'. Umm, this is is not a block device driver. A block device driver would take in bios and the upper devices it creates and then submit them to the lower devices.