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Status for qbootctl/0.2.0-2

Patch Description Author Forwarded Bugs Origin Last update
bootctrl-fall-back-to-active-slot.patch [PATCH] bootctrl: fall back to active slot if current slot not found in cmdline

While postmarketOS makes use of a kernel cmdline argument, this isn't
the case for all distros. Furthermore, this argument isn't present in
those added automatically by the Android bootloader.

In order to still be able to use `qbootctl` on other distros, this
change ensures we use the currently active slot as the current slot when
the cmdline argument is missing. This ensure `qbootctl -m` picks up the
correct slot more often than not, instead of always defaulting to `_a`.		 Arnaud Ferraris <arnaud.ferraris@collabora.com> yes 2024-08-28
gpt-utils-Open-block-device-read-only-when-obtaining-info.patch gpt-utils: Open block device read only when obtaining info
Otherwise reading information like `qbootctl -a` triggers removal and
readdition of all partitions like:

```
KERNEL[73264.679695] remove /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
KERNEL[73264.748249] add /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
KERNEL[73264.863286] remove /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
KERNEL[73264.917664] add /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV [73264.980859] remove /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV [73265.150742] add /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV [73265.276134] remove /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
UDEV [73265.492442] add /devices/platform/soc@0/1d84000.ufshc/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:4/block/sde/sde11 (block)
…[the same for all other partitions on sde]…
```

leading to wasted CPU cycles (and battery) but also making programms
that run right after that command and accessing one of the partitions
fail sporadically. This can be bad if those commands are e.g. doing a

```
cat /dev/disk/by-partlabel/boot_a
```

to backup the current boot partition.		 =?utf-8?q?Guido_G=C3=BCnther?= <agx@sigxcpu.org> yes 2025-02-11

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