From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
"Herton Krzesinski" <hkrzesin@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
"Rodrigo Freire" <rfreire@redhat.com>,
"Brian Norris" <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mtd: block2mtd: Present block2mtd timely on boot time
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:30:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415374224.22887.24.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545CE335.8020503@openwrt.org>
On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 16:20 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> > The only usage of this driver is emulating a block device on top of NOR
> > flash, and in most cases, only for debugging / research purposes. This
> > is because (a) this driver does not handle bad blocks (and hence,
> > NAND-incompatible) and (b) it does read-erase-write when you modify a
> > block, so it is extremely slow and does not handle power cuts at all.
> I think you got things mixed up a bit. This is not about emulating a
> block device on top of NOR flash. This is about emulating NOR flash on
> top of a regular block device - e.g. USB sticks, SD cards.
Gosh, I'm sorry, you are right. I did mix things up, please, ignore my
e-mail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-09-08 20:04 ` [PATCH] block2mtd: mtd: Present block2mtd timely on boot time Rodrigo Freire
2014-09-09 17:02 ` Jörn Engel
2014-09-17 20:18 ` Rodrigo Freire
2014-09-17 20:28 ` [PATCH V2] mtd: block2mtd: " Rodrigo Freire
2014-09-17 21:21 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-09-17 21:41 ` Rodrigo Freire
2014-10-09 15:07 ` [RESEND PATCH " Rodrigo Freire
2014-11-01 13:33 ` Rodrigo Freire
2014-11-07 9:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-11-07 20:05 ` Brian Norris
2014-11-05 20:01 ` Brian Norris
2014-11-05 20:23 ` [PATCH " Brian Norris
2014-11-07 14:59 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2014-11-07 15:20 ` Felix Fietkau
2014-11-07 15:30 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2014-11-09 12:18 ` Rodrigo Freire
2014-11-26 3:33 ` Brian Norris
2014-11-26 13:32 ` Rodrigo Freire
2015-02-11 15:09 ` Rodrigo Freire
2014-11-09 12:18 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] mtd: block2mtd: wait for device enumeration, add name support Rodrigo Freire
2014-11-09 12:21 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mtd: block2mtd: Ensure that block2mtd is triggered after block devices are presented Rodrigo Freire
2015-02-24 7:45 ` Brian Norris
2014-11-09 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mtd: block2mtd: Adds a mtd name and a block device timeout option Rodrigo Freire
2015-02-24 8:05 ` Brian Norris
2014-11-09 12:23 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mtd: block2mtd: Removes PAGE_MASK as a index to partition size Rodrigo Freire
2014-11-26 7:21 ` Brian Norris
2014-11-26 13:19 ` Rodrigo Freire
2015-02-24 8:07 ` Brian Norris
2015-02-24 8:20 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-02-24 8:27 ` Brian Norris
2015-02-24 8:30 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-02-24 8:40 ` Brian Norris
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