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

[Brian Norris]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Tim Bird <tim.bird at am.sony.com> wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 05:31 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> 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 shows that this feature is not really needed, while adds
>> maintenance burden.
>
> Whoa there!  Just because it doesn't look like people are using fastmap
> right now, don't think it won't get used in the future.   Really,
> the people interested in fastmap are AFAIK mostly TV vendors, who are
> just now migrating to 3.0 or 3.4 kernels.  I can assure you that fastmap
> will get more attention when the major CE companies move to more
> recent kernels (probably in about 1 to 2 years).

I'll second Tim's point here. We will likely use fastmap here
(Broadcom) soon. We're currently migrating to a 3.8 kernel, and
smaller mount/boot times are always a bonus for us. Don't jump ship on
this feature too soon!

Brian