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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Gavin Lambert <gavinl@compacsort.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: Why is PEB not erased before writing???
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:29:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172010561.25076.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <037a01c75538$eb2a3590$0502a8c0@gavinlpc>

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 10:48 +1300, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> Quoth Thomas Gleixner [tglx@linutronix.de]:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:41 +0530, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> >> Yes I did enable this CONFIG_MTD_UBI_USERSPACE_IO  option.We can't
> >> write the device if this flag is not enabled.UBI treats the device as
> >> readonly. This  is the usual way to write UBI device,I guess.
> > 
> > No. It is not. It is a _DEBUG_ option. UBI has an update mechanism.
> > See documentation. 
> 
> Perhaps it needs to be named better then :)

1. It is only available, when you enable CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG

2. From the help text of CONFIG_MTD_UBI_USERSPACE_IO:
"By default, users cannot directly write and erase individual
eraseblocks of dynamic volumes (the update operation must be used
instead). This option enables this capability - this is often useful for
debugging."

Better names are not really preventing PEBKAC scenarios.

	tglx

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-20 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-20  6:37 Why is PEB not erased before writing??? Brijesh Singh
2007-02-20  9:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-20  9:49   ` brijesh.singh
2007-02-20 10:44     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-20 11:08       ` Brijesh Singh
2007-02-20 11:11       ` Brijesh Singh
2007-02-20 11:17         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-02-20 21:48           ` Gavin Lambert
2007-02-20 22:29             ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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