[PATCH 0/2] mtd-utils export libraries

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Wed Jan 7 11:15:44 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:08 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 07:39, Sidney Amani wrote:
> > What we are trying to do is an UBI based userspace filesystem (using fuse).
> > We use the libubi to get volumes and devices info (ubi_get_dev_info,
> > ubi_get_vol_info, ubi_get_dev_info1, ubi_get_vol_info1).
> > Otherwise we communicate with the UBI volume through the cdev driver.
> > I am not sure a shared library is really desirable, probably not,
> > anyway it's not fundamental for us...
> > I particularly though that it could be useful for ubi-tools but I also
> > realize that it's much more restrictive to have shared libraries.
> 
> i'm not terribly familiar with the fuse implementation details.  are
> new filesystems plugins or shared libraries or standalone executables
> or ... ?  i.e. are you going to be linking the UBI code into another
> library or into a final application ?

I believe they should first actually _develop_ their file-system. I
believe they will change/improve the libubi a lot during the
development. And then we may think about a shared library.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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