[PATCH 1/1] ubi: Introduce block devices for UBI volumes

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Feb 10 17:46:00 EST 2014


Dear Piergiorgio Beruto,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:41:54 +0100, Piergiorgio Beruto wrote:

> sorry for interrupting, but what's the benefit in using a runtime var?
> It is great to being able to reduce code size for embedded systems. And ubiblk is likely to be used for embedded.

The point about the caching feature was not really the increased code
size, but rather the memory consumption caused by the cache itself.
This can be solved using a runtime configurable module parameter.

Best regards,

Thomas
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