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From: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim.bird@am.sony.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] MTD: UBI: Add checkpoint on-chip layout
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:02:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F57CCF4.6040902@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331136589.3463.3.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

Am 07.03.2012 17:09, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:06 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Specify the on-chip checkpoint layout.
>> The checkpoint consists of two major parts.
>> A super block (identified via UBI_CP_SB_VOLUME_ID) and
>> zero or more data blocks (identified via UBI_CP_DATA_VOLUME_ID).
>> Data blocks are only used if whole checkpoint information does not fit
>> into the super block.
>
> And superblock is also a more or less standard name used by file-system.
> I easily imagine difficulties and confusion when discussing UBIFS and
> UBI and mixing UBI and UBIFS supersblocks up. IMHO, anything unique is
> much better, even if it does not make much sense. E.g., "boss block" or
> "pomo block" (pomo = boss in Finnish).
>
> Would you consider picking a different name as well please?
>

Will do.

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14 20:06 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/7] MTD: UBI: Add checkpoint on-chip layout Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-07 16:09   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:09     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 21:02     ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2012-03-07 22:09       ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-07 22:09         ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-07 22:23         ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-07 22:23           ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] MTD: UBI: Add checkpoint struct to ubi_device Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] MTD: UBI: Export next_sqnum() Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] MTD: UBI: Make wl subsystem checkpoint aware Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] MTD: UBI: Make process_eb() " Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] MTD: UBI: Implement checkpointing support Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-20 16:31   ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-20 16:31     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-14 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] MTD: UBI: wire up checkpointing Richard Weinberger
2012-02-14 20:06   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 13:57   ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 13:57     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 14:08     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 14:08       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 14:40       ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 14:40         ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-19 15:08         ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-19 15:08           ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-29 11:35 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:35   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:36   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:36     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 11:40   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-02-29 12:01     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-29 12:09     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:04 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:04   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 21:01   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-07 21:01     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-08 11:22     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 11:22       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:33 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 16:33   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-07 21:19   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-07 21:19     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-08  7:08     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08  7:08       ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08  9:21       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-08  9:21         ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-08 11:58         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 11:58           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 13:16           ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08 13:16             ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-03-08 11:54     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-08 11:54       ` Artem Bityutskiy

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