[PATCH for-4.8] ubifs: silence early error messages if MS_SILENT is set

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Mon Jul 18 22:38:28 PDT 2016


Am 19.07.2016 um 00:26 schrieb Daniel Golle:
> Probe-mounting a volume too small for UBIFS results in kernel log
> polution which might irritate users.
> Address this by silencing errors which may happen during boot if the
> rootfs is e.g. squashfs (and thus rather small) stored on a UBI volume.
> This commit should be seen in context with
> commit 65fb47721925628bf85ec08c4302ac5e7224a66a
> and
> commit 90bea5a3f0bf680b87b90516f3c231997f4b8f3b

The diff makes sense but not the commit message.
Why would you mount a squashfs on top of UBI as UBIFS?
We have rootfstype= for this.

Thanks,
//richard



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