linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] UBI: Add fastmap on-flash data structures

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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:33:11 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Heinz.Egger@...utronix.de, tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] UBI: Add fastmap on-flash data structures

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 20:31 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Add the on-flash data structures neeed by fastmap
> to ubi-media.h
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>

Richard, thanks, here is the deal I suggest

1. I do not really have time to review this in details.
2. I do not want to block this either
3. I want to merge this to 3.7 with come pre-conditions (see below)
   as "Experimental" with a claim that the on-flash format can
   be changed. Something like Linus did for btrfs. Then let people
   play with fastmap. I am sure it'll need changes when people
   try to use it in production.

   a. Aiaiai is happy
   b. You provide a section for the mtd web site describing fastmap
   c. It does not break anything when it is disabled
   d. When it is enabled, it also passes the UBI tests

Actually, I want to expose it to linux-next already after step a.
Despite a lot of testing you have already done, I am willing to do some
testing myself as well, so I'll do c. and d. and let you know if there
are issues.

Could you please do b. ?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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