Bootloader support for UBI images

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Tue Jul 1 08:34:11 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 15:26 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> >  Also I need support for 
> > renaming multiple volumes atomically when switching images after the 
> > upgrade. If these sound sensible and useful changes I can look at 
> > creating patches to add these features.
> Also sounds as a good and useful idea. And implementation should not
> difficult - it is just about changing the volume table. You may count on
> my assistance.
> 
> I'm just not sure about the interface. Renaming one volume is fine. But
> you need to rename 2, so the interface should be more complex. And if 2,
> why not 3, or 5? Or 16? Or any amount from 1 to UBI_MAX_VOLUMES?

Just a note: I was talking about how would the corresponding UBI
ioctl(s) interface(s) look like. Kernel people are very picky at this.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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