[PATCH] disk: part: change from hextoul to dectoul

[Jaehoon Chung]

Hi Tom,

On 6/17/22 21:27, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 07:01:59PM +0900, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
> 
>> When 'ls' command is running with partition number, it's passed by a hex
>> value. For example, if want to check a 15th partition, it has to input
>> as 0xf.
>> Before applied
>> - ls mmc 0:f
>> After applied
>> - ls mmc 0:15
>>
>> The using decimal number is more readable than passed by a hex value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung at samsung.com>
> 
> NAK.  I agree it's a more obvious way of interacting.  But the CLI is
> our API with our users and there's lots of stuff out there today that
> knows (and then deals with) needing to pass hex not decimal for
> partitions.  And given SoCs that have large numbers of partitions, you
> can't assume that "12" isn't in intentional and referring to partition
> 18 in decimal.
> 
> We could maybe do this with a flag or environment variable to allow
> people to opt-in, since that would at least allow for multi-platform
> scripts to know what to expect and not have to guess / hard-code per
> platform.

Okay. Frankly, I were not sure that it needs to change or not.
In our boot script, I'm using the hex value and decimal value as other environment variable.
I agreed yours. 

Best Regards,
Jaehoon Chung


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