Messages in this thread |  | | From | Sven Eckelmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:05:55 +0100 |
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On Friday, 27 November 2020 17:32:02 CET ron minnich wrote: > I'm a bit worried about how tricky this starts to get. I'm inclined to > go back to an earlier implementation which used a character that had > not yet been used (iirc I used [] around the PCI ID in a very early > version). What if we used, e.g, a single ! and searched for that? It > need not be !; pick a character. Just something not already in use, as > the ambiguity around which ':' delimits the device has become an > issue, as you show. > > Almost nothing in the original patch would change, save the character > being searched for. By using a character we'd never used, we'd avoid > breaking existing usage.
What? Doesn't make any sense to me. The mtdparts shown in the the commit message is as it is. I cannot simply change it because it is in the control of the bootloader - not the linux kernel or me. So I can also not introduce a different character like ! for separating things.
KInd regards, Sven
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