Userspace write to UBI partitions

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:

>> I'll try this out. In the meantime, there doesn't seem to be an ioctl for
>> erasing blocks?
>>
> Well, another option would be using Gluebi - (CONFIG_MTD_UBI_GLUEBI).
> It exposes a "regular" mtd for every existing volume.
>
> You'd be able to work using standard mtd interfaces on it (mtdchar
> ioctls, e.g. MEMERASE, or even the mtdblock abstraction).

For other reasons, gluebi is not a viable alternative for us. Mainly 
because it puts an mtd device on _every_ ubi volume, meaning that volumes 
can't be removed or resized while gluebi is enabled.

/Ricard
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