Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Patches to allow consistent mmc / mmcblk numbering w/ device tree

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:56:38PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:

quoted

Russell,

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:39:35PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
[didn't read most of your reply]

quoted

Really I just reposted it several times because I notice that you seem
to ignore many points of my emails.  I was really hoping to get you to
address this point.  I notice that you still didn't.  Either you are
just trying to annoy me, or you don't have an answer to how my patch
series hurts you.

I don't see you treating Rob with the same contempt that you have
treated me in this thread, despite Rob and myself both telling you
basically the same thing.

Rob wrote a nice thoughtful reply and I tried to give a nice
thoughtful reply back to him.  He raised some good points and I raised
some good points back to him.  I look forward to his future thoughts
on the topic.

Meanwhile, I've pointed out that you appear to be coming from a
misunderstanding (that's certainly clear because you believed
initially that grub did something it doesn't), showing that the
"problem" you have is no different from the majority of other
systems running Linux, and you treat me with contempt.

What are you going to do to resolve this?

As I tried to indicate in earlier emails, I don't actually care how
grub works in this case.  It was originally meant to illustrate the
other people's workflows and mine are not the same.  If they have a
solution that works for them, that's great.

I want my MMC and MMCBLK device numbers to be sane and consistent to
help me parse through dmesg and sysfs.  If it happens to also make it
easy / possible to specify a root filesystem using "mmcblkN" that's
great and I'll probably take advantage of that.

I'm very sorry if those using SATA and ATA disks don't have a way to
get sane and consistent device number ordering.  I really am.  ...but
just because they don't have a well defined ordering doesn't mean
those of us using MMC should have to suffer.  ...and I don't think
giving a sane ordering to MMC devices hurts anyone, does it?

-Doug