Dear Marek,
In message 201207271330.46967.marex@denx.de you wrote:
This makes no sense to me. MMC is just one of the storagte devices we support, and especially with the upcoming support of a clean device model it makes no sense to handle it special in any way.
Sure, but that might still be a release or so away. So let's not hinder people from doing so, rather let's coordinate. Also, I consider there patches helpful, as we can use that abstraction during the DM work.
Fine.
But why adding special code to only one storage media, and one file system type?
The same holds for FAT - it is just one out of a number of file systems we support, and it makes no sense to add any code to FAT support that makes it incompatible with other file systems.
It's not incompatible, how?
I cannot use - say - a USB storage device instead of MMC.
Why is this so?
I will reply to that in the context of the DFU thread, it makes more sense there.
Any such addition should be implemented in a generic way, that is agnostic of the underlying storage device and the file system used on top of it.
Should, that's the proper word here. It isn't in most of FSs in uboot though and I think this is better than nothing.
Wrong. Adding special code to one file system which makes it "special" compared to other file systems is actually really, really bad.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk