[PATCH]Add JFFS2 eraseblock header support

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Wed Sep 21 03:10:36 EDT 2005


On Wed, 21 September 2005 10:57:40 +0800, zhao forrest wrote:
> 
> I can understand your opinion. Your idea is that, since 1:1 mapping was 
> handled recently, the comp_flag of eraseblock_header can be set to 
> RWCOMPAT_
> DELETE for the JFFS2 code with 1:1 mapping. But for the older JFFS2 code 
> with
> 1:N mapping, the comp_flag of eraseblock_header have to be set to INCOMPAT.
> IMHO I think 1:1 mapping and eraseblock_header should be added to JFFS2 at 
> the same time. But the current situation is that 1:1 mapping patch was 
> checked into CVS earlier than eraseblock_header. 
> So I still agree that "old JFFS2 binaries reject mounting new JFFS2 
> images".

Are you saying that the current way to handle 1:1 mapping is bullocks?

Jörn

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