linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v7] UBI: Fastmap support (aka checkpointing)

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Message-ID: <1338187619.2480.9.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 May 2012 09:46:59 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Heinz.Egger@...utronix.de, tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v7] UBI: Fastmap support (aka checkpointing)

On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 09:36 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> Hi Artem,
> Fine with me, I'm flexible ;)
> 
> What's your plan for merging to the master branch?

Once it the review is finished, and we test it, verify power-cut
robusteness and resilience (we can discuss how separately), we merge it
to the master branch (by squeezing the history I guess).

> BTW, I know you formerly disliked the idea, but I'm in favor of having a
> CONFIG for the fastmap feature; with the config disabled, UBI must
> behave exactly as it was. The config can be later removed.

This makes maintaining difficult - I'll need to have another
compile-test.

We should have an ubiattach option instead (and add this feature to the
attach ioctl - thankfully we have unused bytes there).

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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