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On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 01:17:26AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Also, all these low-level features on top of MTD are used by people
> > who try to build systems and who are expected to understand a little
> > bit some of the limits of the solutions they use. It's not the basic
> > joe user who will install ext4 on top of ubiblock on his NAND by
> > himself.
> 
> My experience has shown the opposite. ;-)

When these happen, it's most likely because they copy-paste a howto
from a blog, so anyway they'll blindly follow whatever appears on the
blog including patching their kernel or forcing whatever option :-)

> > This I think it's a bad idea to artificially remove some features
> > if they're not broken.
> 
> Your arguments have convinced me, let's keep it and hope the best.

OK thanks!
Willy