[RFC] [PATCH 1/1] [MTD] UBI: implement per-volume update

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Thu Feb 1 08:26:56 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 14:10 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 12:21 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > This patch removes the global update marker support and everything
> > related to it. Now we have per-volume update marker bit in the
> > volume table. This makes us incompatible with older UBI images but
> > this is not a big deal - UBI is not used so widely so far and we
> > can afford dropping legacy stuff now.
> 
> Uuurgh. Incompatible in what way ? Does this mean you cannot boot from
> an existing image anymore ?

Err, actually only those which have update marker on flash. If you do
not have it - it should be fine.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)





More information about the linux-mtd mailing list