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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