From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758117Ab1F1Pfu (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:35:50 -0400 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([88.190.12.23]:33476 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757706Ab1F1Pbs (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:31:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4E09F3F1.7080109@free-electrons.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:32:01 +0200 From: David Wagner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthieu CASTET CC: "dedekind1@gmail.com" , "dwmw2@infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: new module ubiblk: block layer on top of UBI References: <1308922482-14967-1-git-send-email-david.wagner@free-electrons.com> <1308922482-14967-2-git-send-email-david.wagner@free-electrons.com> <1309202771.24805.11.camel@koala> <4E09EA52.8090006@parrot.com> In-Reply-To: <4E09EA52.8090006@parrot.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/28/2011 04:50 PM, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > Hi, > [...] > Also what are the advantage against gluebi + mtdblock_ro ? The main advantage is a reduced number of layers ; I must say I cannot see much more for now. I could add that the Kconfig help of gluebi advises not to use it except when needed by legacy software. -- David Wagner, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([88.190.12.23]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QbaGS-0003CF-BE for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:31:48 +0000 Message-ID: <4E09F3F1.7080109@free-electrons.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:32:01 +0200 From: David Wagner MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthieu CASTET Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: new module ubiblk: block layer on top of UBI References: <1308922482-14967-1-git-send-email-david.wagner@free-electrons.com> <1308922482-14967-2-git-send-email-david.wagner@free-electrons.com> <1309202771.24805.11.camel@koala> <4E09EA52.8090006@parrot.com> In-Reply-To: <4E09EA52.8090006@parrot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , "dwmw2@infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "dedekind1@gmail.com" List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 06/28/2011 04:50 PM, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > Hi, > [...] > Also what are the advantage against gluebi + mtdblock_ro ? The main advantage is a reduced number of layers ; I must say I cannot see much more for now. I could add that the Kconfig help of gluebi advises not to use it except when needed by legacy software. -- David Wagner, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com