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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/partitions/Kconfig | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/partitions/cmdline.c | 8 |
7 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX index d18ecd827c4..929d9904f74 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/block/00-INDEX @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ capability.txt - Generic Block Device Capability (/sys/block/<device>/capability) cfq-iosched.txt - CFQ IO scheduler tunables +cmdline-partition.txt + - how to specify block device partitions on kernel command line data-integrity.txt - Block data integrity deadline-iosched.txt diff --git a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt index 2bbf4cc40c3..525b9f6d7fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -Embedded device command line partition +Embedded device command line partition parsing ===================================================================== -Read block device partition table from command line. -The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. -It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed +Support for reading the block device partition table from the command line. +It is typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices. +It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 73d23fdc512..fcbb736d55f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -480,6 +480,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. + blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for + embedded devices based on command line input. + See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt + boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to no delay (0). diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index 7f38e40fee0..2429515c05c 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -99,11 +99,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information. -config CMDLINE_PARSER +config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER bool "Block device command line partition parser" default n ---help--- - Parsing command line, get the partitions information. + Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from + the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices + which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the + partitions on a block device. + + See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information. menu "Partition Types" diff --git a/block/Makefile b/block/Makefile index 4fa4be544ec..671a83d063a 100644 --- a/block/Makefile +++ b/block/Makefile @@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ) += cfq-iosched.o obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK_COMPAT) += compat_ioctl.o obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY) += blk-integrity.o -obj-$(CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER) += cmdline-parser.o +obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER) += cmdline-parser.o diff --git a/block/partitions/Kconfig b/block/partitions/Kconfig index 87a32086535..9b29a996c31 100644 --- a/block/partitions/Kconfig +++ b/block/partitions/Kconfig @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ config SYSV68_PARTITION config CMDLINE_PARTITION bool "Command line partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED - select CMDLINE_PARSER + select BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER help - Say Y here if you would read the partitions table from bootargs. + Say Y here if you want to read the partition table from bootargs. The format for the command line is just like mtdparts. diff --git a/block/partitions/cmdline.c b/block/partitions/cmdline.c index 56cf4ffad51..5141b563adf 100644 --- a/block/partitions/cmdline.c +++ b/block/partitions/cmdline.c @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ * Copyright (C) 2013 HUAWEI * Author: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> * - * Read block device partition table from command line. - * The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. - * It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed + * Read block device partition table from the command line. + * Typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices. + * It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed * by absolute address of data on the block device. * Users can easily change the partition. * * The format for the command line is just like mtdparts. * - * Verbose config please reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" + * For further information, see "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" * */ |