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

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 10:05 -0700, Tim Bird 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).

Fair enough!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy