From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([131.228.20.171] helo=mgw-ext12.nokia.com) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HFXAN-0003u8-0j for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:56:01 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: introduce sequential counter From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Josh Boyer In-Reply-To: <1171032618.4884.196.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> References: <20070208200247.11853.36338.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <1170972968.4884.140.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <1171012339.10670.33.camel@sauron> <1171026729.4884.177.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <1171032000.17314.4.camel@sauron> <1171032618.4884.196.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:54:11 +0200 Message-Id: <1171032851.17314.8.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: MTDML Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 08:50 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. Yes. I is not required to be done immediately. But in order to be able to smoothly remove legacy stuff, it should be done better sooner then later. --=20 Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90= =D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)