Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] blockdev: Add a new IF type IF_OTHER

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 14:30, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Am 28.07.2022 um 11:46 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 20:03, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > If the existing types aren't good enough (I don't have an opinion on
> > > whether IF_PFLASH is a good match), let's add a new one. But a specific
> > > new one, not just "other".
> >
> > I think the common thread is "this isn't what anybody actually thinks
> > of as being a 'disk', but we would like to back it with a block device
> > anyway". That can cover a fair range of possibilities...
>
> How confident are we that no board will ever have two devices of this
> kind?
>
> As long as every board has at most one, if=other is a bad user interface
> in terms of descriptiveness, but still more or less workable as long as
> you know what it means for the specific board you use.

Extremely non-confident, but that holds for all these things,
unless we add new IF_* for every possible new thing:
 IF_PFLASH
 IF_EEPROM
 IF_EFUSE
 IF_BBRAM
 ...
?

thanks
-- PMM