[PATCH] distroboot: ubifs: Add support for specifying UBI header offset
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Fri Aug 26 17:28:06 CEST 2022
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 03:52:20PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2022 12:10:27 Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 07, 2022 at 09:04:22PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >
> > > Some UBI partitions may use non-standard UBI header offset. For attaching
> > > these UBI partitions it is required to pass second argument with offset to
> > > "ubi part" command.
> > >
> > > Therefore extend distroboot to allow specifying additional optional 6th
> > > argument with UBI header offset. This offset is set in new distroboot
> > > variable ${bootubioff} which may be used by distroboot script to e.g.
> > > properly pass this value to linux kernel command line for proper mounting
> > > of rootfs by kernel. This variable is set to empty string (cleared) when
> > > UBI header offset is not specified into distroboot BOOT_TARGET_DEVICES
> > > macro.
> > >
> > > Usage of helper macro BOOTENV_DEV_UBIFS_BOOTUBIOFF in this change is there
> > > as a type check. It ensures that in BOOT_TARGET_DEVICES macro was specified
> > > UBIFS func with either 5 or 6 arguments. If not then cpp throws compile
> > > error.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> >
> > --
> > Tom
>
> Tom, who can take this patch?
I'll take it, as part of putting together a number of small fixes for
this release.
--
Tom
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