[U-Boot] Are mmc open/close subcommands needed?

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Fri Jan 3 00:36:41 CET 2014


On Thursday, January 02, 2014 at 05:53:00 PM, Hector Palacios wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw commit 2a91c9134675140853577b565210458b5774e6cf that introduces mmc
> subcommands 'open' and 'close' to access eMMC boot partitions and was
> wondering if they are really needed. Can't the same be achieved with
> already existing 'mmc dev [dev] [part]' command?
> 
> mmc open <dev> <boot_partition>
>   is the same as
> mmc dev <dev> <part>
>   where <part> is the boot partition
> 
> mmc close <dev> <boot_partition>
>   is the same as
> mmc dev <dev> 0
>   as a 0 will switch to partition 0 (user data).
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Hector Palacios

+CC Panto

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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