From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([131.228.20.172] helo=mgw-ext13.nokia.com) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HCc4d-0007dH-Pw for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:34:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/1] [MTD] UBI: implement per-volume update From: Artem Bityutskiy To: tglx@linutronix.de In-Reply-To: <1170335439.29240.277.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070201102105.15629.61206.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20070201102111.15629.24289.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <1170335439.29240.277.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:26:56 +0200 Message-Id: <1170336416.3628.3.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Alexander Schmidt , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 14:10 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 12:21 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > This patch removes the global update marker support and everything > > related to it. Now we have per-volume update marker bit in the > > volume table. This makes us incompatible with older UBI images but > > this is not a big deal - UBI is not used so widely so far and we > > can afford dropping legacy stuff now. >=20 > Uuurgh. Incompatible in what way ? Does this mean you cannot boot from > an existing image anymore ? Err, actually only those which have update marker on flash. If you do not have it - it should be fine. --=20 Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90= =D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)