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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com>
Cc: Linux mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Userspace write to UBI partitions
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:59:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328702346.22240.48.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202071733580.17234@lnxricardw.se.axis.com>

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On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 17:36 +0100, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> > If dynamic, have you tried setting the UBI_VOL_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE
> > property by issuing a UBI_IOCSETVOLPROP volume ioctl?
> > (formerly named UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE and UBI_IOCSETPROP)
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, I've never noticed this ioctl before.
> 
> I'll try this out.

It should help.

>  In the meantime, there doesn't seem to be an ioctl for 
> erasing blocks?

In UBI it is called "unmap" instead of "erase":

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_unmap

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-08 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07 15:20 Userspace write to UBI partitions Ricard Wanderlof
2012-02-07 16:29 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-07 16:36   ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-02-07 17:09     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-02-08  7:35       ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-02-08 12:00         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-08 12:20           ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-02-08 11:59     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-02-08 12:18       ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-02-08 13:49         ` Atlant Schmidt
2012-02-08 13:58           ` Artem Bityutskiy

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