[RFC] Raising the UBI version

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 22.06.2016 um 16:52 schrieb Boris Brezillon:
> So how about defining the following:
> - /sys/class/ubi/version: user-space ABI version (should always be one)

Yes. To not break libubi.

> - /sys/class/ubi/supported-on-flash-formats: either a bitfield or an
>   integer representing the higher on-flash format version supported by
>   the implementation (which implies that implementations have to
>   support all on-flash formats up-to supported-on-flash-formats)

We can do that. But who will evaluate this file?

> - /sys/class/ubi/supported-features: the features supported by the
>   implementation (each bit is a specific feature or a set of features).
>   The features may or may not be version dependent.
> - /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/on-flash-format: the on-flash format used on the
>   UBIX device
> - /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/features: the features exposed by this UBIX
>   device

I think we should make features depend on version = 2.
IOW when we change the UBI format in a major way version will be 3 and
we maybe use something else to expose features.

Thanks,
//richard