From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18114C4332F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S239266AbiKQGAs (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:00:48 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51558 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239246AbiKQGAi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:00:38 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A58A16581; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=Ka0zWX28jwmPVoBvV9gqCxIV7SNbOuU8UYsaU9048Q8=; b=D6quLTD6qQFeVVAaaaR6f+qtrB z/Jom9O6meODBzgm1GH6/KunvdEvNQY7XIMs3gRtEKvbWXXa0owllsCKvC3e/LR+J2U+yyyudYQU3 cIwBElUPrpB+w4DOQzPLlDLltNf0nD842kVjXsMvIjNHdVMo9VKHypAipsl/xkIqF2x1vRzJ302e8 A+rOQp3h5vyXKSjjFD6NWl6ApWw0PmKNAX6b2mmxML0xZTIy8NJqVDcXaaN1Ti/enDG8WX6Jw7rcd 9YwizRkHVVMoYixOy/i5yrS50o27AXxVMY1VrnEc8rWUL6FMm3kFLxHWgwyF5e1vRlq1eNC3QjxmH RyZ8oQUg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ovXwn-00AcUt-IU; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:00:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:25 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Golle Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Matthew Wilcox , "Martin K. Petersen" , Chaitanya Kulkarni , Michal Orzel , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] partitions/efi: add support for uImage.FIT sub-partitions Message-ID: References: <7526fc5a461a0d68eb1dab575f9c1950638fc21a.1668548123.git.daniel@makrotopia.org> 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 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:19:10AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote: > While weirdness is certainly subjective, uImage.FIT is not just a > random image format but used by a great majority of headless embedded > Linux devices out there. It's the default image format of many of the > SDKs distributed by chip vendors such as Allwinner, Marvell, MediaTek, > NXP, Qualcomm/Atheros, ... "Look see, my weird format is used by all these companies building crappy SOCs, it is not weird.." > Please let me know if this sounds acceptable, so I won't put effort > into implementing something which will then be rejected again after 5 > iterations on the mailing list for reasons which could have been > expressed from the beginning. An RFC for this series was posted on > 2022-04-25 [1], I wouldn't have worked months to fix all requests of > other maintainers and tested it on a variety of different hardware > knowing that the whole approach will be NACK'ed... If people ignore something that is obviously broken they might just hope for it to go away, becaue often it does.