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On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 09:33 -0400, Rodrigo Freire wrote:
> From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> 
> 
> mtd: block2mtd: Ensure that block2mtd is presented timely on boot time
> 
> Currently, a block MTD device is not presented to the system on time, in 
> order to start mounting the filesystems. This patch ensures that block2mtd 
> is presented at the right time, so filesystems can be mounted on boot time. 
> This issue is seen on BCM2835 (Raspberry Pi) systems when mounting JFFS2 
> over block2mtd devices as the root filesystem.
> This patchset also adds a MTD device name and a timeout option to the driver. 
> Original patchset: 
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/generic/patches-3.12/440-block2mtd_init.patch?rev=40444 
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/generic/patches-3.12/441-block2mtd_probe.patch?rev=40444 

I  think you can mount jffs2 using /dev/mtdX, you do not need the block
driver.