sandbox: restore ability to access host fs through standard commands

[karo-tx-uboot.git] / disk / part.c

diff --git a/disk/part.c b/disk/part.c
index b3097e32f0eb0a14bb356f21d816abb39e78ca72..baceb19c60c7212c215e69eaba0be55d3f720170 100644 (file)
--- a/disk/part.c
+++ b/disk/part.c
@@ -510,6 +510,25 @@ int get_device_and_partition(const char *ifname, const char *dev_part_str,
        int part;
        disk_partition_t tmpinfo;
 
+       /*
+        * Special-case a psuedo block device "hostfs", to allow access to the
+        * host's own filesystem.
+        */
+       if (0 == strcmp(ifname, "hostfs")) {
+               *dev_desc = NULL;
+               info->start = 0;
+               info->size = 0;
+               info->blksz = 0;
+               info->bootable = 0;
+               strcpy((char *)info->type, BOOT_PART_TYPE);
+               strcpy((char *)info->name, "Sandbox host");
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARTITION_UUIDS
+               info->uuid[0] = 0;
+#endif
+
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        /* If no dev_part_str, use bootdevice environment variable */
        if (!dev_part_str || !strlen(dev_part_str) ||
            !strcmp(dev_part_str, "-"))