From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: dedekind@infradead.org
Cc: MTDML <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: introduce sequential counter
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:50:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171032618.4884.196.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171032000.17314.4.camel@sauron>
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:40 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 07:12 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > If writing zeroes to the field for all LEBs is valid, then I don't think
> > the tools need updating. At least not the image creation tools. We've
> > already declared the padding fields to be zero filled.
> >
> > The unubi tool will need updating though.
>
> They should be updated because they should generate unique numbers to
> the sqnum field, do not use old 'leb_ver' stuff, because leb_ver stuff
> will go away eventually, say, in a year. Also boot-loaders should be
> eventually updated.
Having them generate a unique number for seqnum isn't _required_ though
right? UBI will see them all as 0 and still work if I understand
correctly.
I agree the tools _should_ be changed. I just want to make sure that
it's not a requirement before this patch goes in.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-09 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-08 20:02 [PATCH] UBI: introduce sequential counter Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-08 22:16 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 5:50 ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-09 9:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-09 9:12 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-09 13:12 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 14:40 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-09 14:50 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-02-09 14:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-13 15:11 ` Frank Haverkamp
2007-02-13 15:40 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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