[PATCH 2/3] mtdblock: Add comment about UBI block devices

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Fri Aug 6 13:05:42 PDT 2021


On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 23:45:08 UTC, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> There is a surprisingly large number of tutorials
> that suggest using mtdblock to mount SquashFS filesystems
> on flash devices, including NAND devices.
> 
> Given this approach is suboptimal than using UBI, and given
> the UBI block device layer was introduced many years ago
> specifically with this use case in mind, add a small
> comment inviting users and developers to consider UBI block.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel at collabora.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel



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