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<20210801234509.18774-1-ezequiel@collabora.com> <20211026150350.GA5136@localhost> Organization: Bootlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.7 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Ezequiel, ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar wrote on Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:54:36 -0300: > Hi Trevor, > > I am not reachable at ezequiel at collabora.com, so I missed this > thread. Sorry about the delay, replying. > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 12:05, Trevor Woerner wrote: > > > > On Sun 2021-08-01 @ 08:45:02 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > > Hi Richard, and everyone else: > > > > > > Browsing the internet for "JFFS2 mtd" results in tutorials, articles > > > and github.gists0 that point to mtdblock. > > > > > > In fact, even the MTD wiki mentions that JFFS2 > > > needs mtdblock to mount a rootfs: > > > > > > http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/jffs2.html > > > > > > Moreover, I suspect there may be lots of users > > > that still believe mtdblock is somehow needed to > > > mount SquashFS. > > > > > > I've taken a verbose route and added a pr_warn > > > warning if the devices are NAND. I don't think using > > > NAND without UBI is too wise, and given the amount > > > of outdated tutorials I believe some advertising > > > will help. > > > > Not all NAND partitions on a device will contain linux root filesystems. For a > > linux root filesystem perhaps using UBI/UBIFS is preferred, yet these messages > > print out for each and every NAND partition: > > > > [ 0.900827] Creating 8 MTD partitions on "nxp_lpc3220_slc": > > [ 0.906431] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "bootrom" > > [ 0.913523] mtdblock: MTD device 'bootrom' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > [ 0.933334] 0x000000020000-0x000000080000 : "uboot" > > [ 0.940439] mtdblock: MTD device 'uboot' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > [ 0.963322] 0x000000080000-0x000000440000 : "fbkernel" > > [ 0.970655] mtdblock: MTD device 'fbkernel' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > [ 0.993361] 0x000000440000-0x000000920000 : "fbrootfs" > > [ 1.000725] mtdblock: MTD device 'fbrootfs' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > [ 1.023315] 0x000000920000-0x000000ce0000 : "c_kernel" > > [ 1.030722] mtdblock: MTD device 'c_kernel' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > [ 1.053444] 0x000000ce0000-0x000000d00000 : "c__atags" > > [ 1.060742] mtdblock: MTD device 'c__atags' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > [ 1.083349] 0x000000d00000-0x000001000000 : "c_rootfs" > > [ 1.090702] mtdblock: MTD device 'c_rootfs' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > [ 1.113335] 0x000001000000-0x000020000000 : "mender" > > [ 1.131627] mtdblock: MTD device 'mender' is NAND, please consider using UBI block devices instead. > > > > NAND tends to be something found on older devices, the firmware/bootloaders > > of older devices couldn't possibly understand UBI/UBIFS so many of these > > partitions need be "raw" partitions, or use something that predates UBI. > > > > Ironically my "mender" partition contains a UBI (with multiple UBIFSes inside) > > yet I got the same "please use UBI" message as all the others (lol) > > > > I'm specifying my partitions in DT with: > > > > partitions { > > compatible = "fixed-partitions"; > > #address-cells = <1>; > > #size-cells = <1>; > > > > mtd0@0 { label = "bootrom"; reg = <0x00000000 0x00020000>; }; > > mtd1@20000 { label = "uboot"; reg = <0x00020000 0x00060000>; }; > > mtd2@80000 { label = "fbkernel"; reg = <0x00080000 0x003c0000>; }; > > mtd3@440000 { label = "fbrootfs"; reg = <0x00440000 0x004e0000>; }; > > mtd4@920000 { label = "c_kernel"; reg = <0x00920000 0x003c0000>; }; > > mtd5@ce0000 { label = "c__atags"; reg = <0x00ce0000 0x00020000>; }; > > mtd6@d00000 { label = "c_rootfs"; reg = <0x00d00000 0x00300000>; }; > > mtd7@1000000 { label = "mender"; reg = <0x01000000 0x1f000000>; }; > > }; > > > > which is why, I assume, I'm getting these messages. Is there a UBI-friendly > > way to define them to avoid these messages? > > > > I feel the messages are actually helping you. You should not have mtdblock > on any of these MTD devices, if I understood correctly, since you are not > mounting a filesystem on any of them. > > Just disable MTDBLOCK on your build and you will be good to go. > > I am inclined to just leave the warnings, although they look spammy, > precisely to help catch this mis-setups. I keep getting complaints about these messages because they are spawned several times in a boot (each device or partition, I don't recall) while mtdblock is not even used. I understand it would be best to have it disabled in this case but could we find a way to be less invasive? Thanks, Miquèl