[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] sandbox: restore ability to access host fs through standard commands

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stephen,

On 11 June 2014 12:20, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>
> Commit 95fac6ab4589 "sandbox: Use os functions to read host device tree"
> removed the ability for get_device_and_partition() to handle the "host"
> device type, and redirect accesses to it to the host filesystem. This
> broke some unit tests that use this feature. So, revert that change. The
> code added back by this patch is slightly different to pacify checkpatch.
>
> However, we're then left with "host" being both:
> - A pseudo device that accesses the hosts real filesystem.
> - An emulated block device, which accesses "sectors" inside a file stored
>   on the host.
>
> In order to resolve this discrepancy, rename the pseudo device from host
> to hostfs, and adjust the unit-tests for this change.
>
> The "help sb" output is modified to reflect this rename, and state where
> the host and hostfs devices should be used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

One more thing to be complete - can you please update line 17 of
test/vboot/vboot_test.sh to use this? You can then test it with
something like:

make O=sandbox sandbox_config all
O=sandbox ./test/vboot/vboot_test.sh

Regards,
Simon