[RFC v2] UBI: UBIVIS (aka checkpointing) support

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 11.05.2012 12:46, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:33 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> First of all, yes it's fully backward-compatible. It uses two new internal volume IDs
>> with compat = UBI_COMPAT_DELETE.
>> Old UBI implementations will delete the checkpoint and continue with scanning...
> 
> OK. BTW, these patches do not compile when the fastmap is disabled. I
> hope you'll just kill the ifdefs in the next revision and this problem
> will go away.

It builds fine here with CONFIG_MTD_UBI_CHECKPOINT=n.
What error do you get?

>> Regarding design, ubi_wl_get_peb() currently offers three types of data types.
>> UBI_LONGTERM, UBI_SHORTTERM and UBI_UNKNOWN. Do we really need them?
>> Checkpointing has a pool of unknown PEBs. This PEBs have to be scanned while attaching.
>> For now I had to create three pools (for UBI_LONGTERM, UBI_SHORTTERM and UBI_UNKNOWN).
>> This makes the whole thing complexer than needed.
>> It introduces also some nasty corner cases.
> 
> But AFAIR we already agreed that we kill these, no? I thought you'll
> send a separate patch for this. We do not need this feature and to our
> shame it even was not working and there was a bug found very recently.

Perfect!
I was confused and thought that this feature will be removed later...

Thanks,
//richard

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