linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] block: support embedded device command line partition

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Date:	Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:08:24 +0000
From:	Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@...ilicon.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@...ilicon.com>,
	Quyaxin <quyaxin@...ilicon.com>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] block: support embedded device command line partition

 
> I saw this patch appear in kernel v3.12-rc1, and it's nice since it's exactly
> what we need. So needed that we proposed it in 2010:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127425650923757&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127599718024364&w=2
> 
> Is this patch inspired by Ulfs patch? (I can see the code is different,
> but the cmdline argument is the same for example.) Some credit
> could have been proper in that case.

I have not searched other patch, English reading/writing is not an easy thing for me.

Thank Ulf Hansson. He was the first one who thought of this method.

> 
> Just asking: sometimes wheels do get reinvented.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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