linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtdblock: Warn if the added for a NAND device

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Message-ID: <CAAEAJfDqEu0XtZ_FvVUM31p5PumPmK0x-r8sFWXzENDqf5zj_g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:27:54 -0300
From:   Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>,
        linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtdblock: Warn if the added for a NAND device

Bonjour Miquel,

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 17:05, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 23:45:09 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.
> >
> > This approach is suboptimal than using UBI. If the flash device
> > is NAND, this is specially true, due to wear leveling, bit-flips and
> > badblocks. In this case UBI is strongly preferred, so be nice to users
> > and print a warning suggesting to consider UBI block, if mtdblock
> > is added for a NAND device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>
>
> Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.
>

Any chance you respin this one?

It appears somehow this made its way to the patch:
"Untracked files not listed" sorry about that -- could you remove it?

While there, you can fix the typo in the commit title:
"mtdblock: Warn if the added for a NAND device" -> "mtdblock: Warn if
added for a NAND device"

Thanks a lot,
Ezequiel