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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: introduce atomic LEB change ioctl
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:22:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201537366.4262.2.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080125152829.591def16@zod.rchland.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:28 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Could you explain a bit more?  What exactly does "atomic" mean?
> 
> This seems like it's similar to volume update, only on a LEB level
> right? If so, could you make volume update just use this or somehow
> combine them?
> 
> Maybe I've just been away from UBI too long.  It sounds cool, but I
> don't fully understand what the intention is.

Josh,

I've updated the UBI documentation in order to answer your question. Any
documentation improvements and spelling fixes are welcome.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24 16:54 [PATCH] UBI: introduce atomic LEB change ioctl Artem Bityutskiy
2008-01-24 16:54 ` [PATCH] UBI: implement " Artem Bityutskiy
2008-01-25 21:28 ` [PATCH] UBI: introduce " Josh Boyer
2008-01-28 16:22   ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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