[RFC/PATCH v2] ubi: Add ubiblock read-write driver

[richard -rw- weinberger]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 07:57 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> the reason we're talking about not allowing write support at the
>> *block* layer
>> is because it's questionable how many people actually want this, the
>> performance isn't good (compared to native flash filesystems), and
>> because the
>> write/wear characteristics are unknown.
>
> My opinion that unless people demonstrate that they need this, e.g. in a
> product, etc, we should not merge this stuff.
>
> We recently merged fastmap, which is a big chunk of code, and it looks
> like no one really needs it. There was a problem report, and Richard
> promised to look, but did not. I do not blame him, he is a busy guy. But
> this shoes that this feature is not really needed, while adds
> maintenance burden.

You mean "ubi fastmap memory leak"? No need to worry, it is on my radar.
But as the issue is not a show-stopper I have to take care first of
problems with
higher priority.

Thanks,
//richard