[PATCH 4/4] UBI: replace MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT with user-space parameter

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 16:50 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> Yes, but the main drawback I was referring to is those platforms already
> setting MTD_UBI_BEB_RESERVE other than the default, by means of kernel
> configuration.
> (there's one platform known to do so in its defconfig, that's
> sam9_l9260_defconfig, which uses 3% instead of the "standard" 2%).

Yes, I understand this. I think there are few such systems and many of
them are fine to pass the parameter explicitly.

> We force these systems to change their usermode because we changed ubi's
> default BEB limit to be 20/1024 _hardcoded_ (instead of kernel
> configurable as previously was).

Not necessarily, they can come to us and ask to add the kernel option.

> Is this ok?

It is not ideal, but I am willing to take this risk.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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