[PATCH] mtd-www: Add fastmap doc

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 00:18:18 EDT 2012


Hi,

I made a quick read of your review.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Tue,  2 Oct 2012 17:29:09 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> +<h4><a name="L_fastmap_compat">Backwards compatibility</a></h4>
>> +<p>The fastmap on-disk data structure makes use of delete compatible volumes,
>> +therefore fastmap enabled images are fully backwards compatible with UBI
>
> backwards -> backward (but I'm not 100%, I'm not a native speaker)

I am a native speaker, and I'm not really sure. There's not any great,
reliable source I can find, but it looks like either is acceptable:

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/backward-compatible-or-backwards-compatible/

>> +<p>A on-disk fastmap contains all information needed to attach the whole image,
>> +namely all erase counter values, a list of all PEBs and their state, a list of
>> +all volumes and their current EBA, ...
>> +To avoid too much writes of the fastmap it contains also a list of PEBs which
>
> it also contains

I would also suggest:

s/too much/too many/
s/fastmap/fastmap,/

Brian



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