ubi_eba_init_scan: cannot reserve enough PEBs

[Matthew L. Creech]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Something like this, I guess, would be good enough?
>
...
> + *   o if this is a new UBI image, then just print the warning
> + *   o if this is an UBI image which has already been used for some time, print
> + *     a warning only if we can reserve less than 10% of the expected amount of
> + *     the reserved PEB.
> + *
> + * The idea is that when UBI is used, PEBs become bad, and the reserved pool
> + * of PEBs becomes smaller, which is normal and we do not want to scare users
> + * with a warning every time they attach the MTD device. This was an issue
> + * reported by real users.

This sounds like a good compromise to me.  I was wondering whether
we'd still want to warn in the case in which nearly all of the reserve
PEBs had been exhausted, and using a 10% threshold seems like a good
way to accomplish that without scaring others unnecessarily.  :)

Thanks

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Matthew L. Creech