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The patchset is in next three messages

On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 10:34 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 01:39 +0400, dmitry pervushin wrote:
> > UBI volume notifications is intended to create the API to get clients
> > notified about volume creation/deletion, renaming and changing(actually,
> > resizing). A client can subscribe to these notifications using
> > ubi_volume_register and cancel the subsription using
> > ubi_volume_unregister. When UBI volume change occurs, the atomic
> > notifier will be called. Client also can request "added" event on all
> > volumes that existed before client subscribed to the notifications.
> > 
> > Using notifications instead of calling functions ubi_gluebi_xxx allows
> > MTD emulation layer to be more flexible; say, now is it possible to
> > build it as a module and load/unload it on demand.
> > 
> > Thanks Artem Bityutskiy for reviewing the patch and many very valuable
> > comments.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: dmitry pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the patch. Is it possible to submit it together
> with a user? E.g., AFAIR you separated out gluebi, could
> this be also submitted? I would be much happier to see a
> new interface functions + a user, not just the interface
> functions alone.
> 
> I've inlined a slightly midified version of your patch
> for you, because I found it easier to fix minor things
> rather than request you about this.
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