[PATCH] mtd: allow mtd and jffs2 when ARCH=um

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:19, Jason Lunz <lunz at acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 06:49:02PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>> The problem is that jffs2 is a filesystem, and thus something people would
>> really like to be able to loopback mount, but it's hardwired to assume it's
>> only ever stored on a certain type of hardware, and thus requies incestuous
>> knowledge of the erase granularity of the flash layer in order to function.
>
> I assume you can turn your jffs2 image file into a block dev using
> losetup, then turn the corresponding loop device into an mtd device
> using block2mtd, at which point you ought to be able to mount it with
> jffs2. I've never tried it.

And block2mtd is part of mtd, so you have to get mtd compiled first.

BTW, the patch I used in the past was less intrusive than yours.
I attached it, as I can't send it inline from here.
Note that it was against 2.6.31-rc4.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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