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From: Alexander Schmidt <alexs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dedekind@infradead.org
Cc: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] ubi-utils: introduction of libubi_common
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:33:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708021033.59483.alexs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185627090.26902.18.camel@sauron>

Hi Artem,

On Saturday 28 July 2007, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Is it possible to make any patterns like this part of _utilities_?
> UBI devices may have any names and it is defined by udev. The
> library should not assume any UBI device name.
> 
> Whole this file should be out of libubi,not part of it.

I think this issue is caused by the command line interface we have at
the moment, where only device numbers are specified and a path
to a custom device cannot be specified. So even if we move this
hardcoded path to the utils, the user is still not able to specify a
custom device path in _any_ of the utils.

What we have to do to resolve this issue IMO is to change the cli
(while preserving the old one for legacy), which is a more intrusive
change than migrating the tools to the new libubi, and which should
be a separate patch. However, even this change seems easier to me
when the device path is hardcoded only in one place...

Regards,
Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-02  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27 15:23 [PATCH 0/5] ubi-utils: migrate to new libubi Alexander Schmidt
2007-07-27 15:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] ubi-utils: introduction of libubi_common Alexander Schmidt
2007-07-28 12:51   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-08-02  8:33     ` Alexander Schmidt [this message]
2007-08-04  9:03       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-07-27 15:29 ` [PATCH 2/5] ubi-utils: migrate pddcustomize Alexander Schmidt
2007-07-27 15:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] ubi-utils: migrate ubimirror Alexander Schmidt
2007-07-27 15:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] ubi-utils: migrate pfiflash Alexander Schmidt
2007-07-27 15:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] ubi-utils: remove dead code Alexander Schmidt

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