Basic question how jffs2 uses mtd

Jasmine Strong jasmine at regolith.co.uk
Tue Nov 26 07:26:13 EST 2002


On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 12:24 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I try to debug a strange problem with jffs2 here. That's why I wonder
> what JFFS2 uses the MTD layer for. I remember that I read somewhere
> that JFFS2 only uses the MTD layer to obtain a handle to the actual
> flash device. Is that right?
>

No.

jffs2 uses the mtdblock device only to obtain a handle to the 
underlying mtd driver,
whose functions it uses directly (pretty much.)

Jas.





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