[PATCH v2 0/6] UBI: make UBI devices dynamic

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>]

[-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1368 bytes --]

Hi,

here is the second iteration of the patch-set. Changes (were
requested by Arnd):

* data_offset is removed as it makes no sens to set it to anything
  but the default value
* UBI control device is now registered as "misc" device, so we
  do not waste Linux major/minor numbers
* More commentaries in the ubi-user.h file

The ltree slab cache is not removed, it will be done separately.

The original message
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

here is a patch-set which makes UBI devices dynamic. This means,
that you may attach/detach MTD devices run-time, not just when
UBI module is loaded/unloaded. This is very convenient - you do
may compile UBI into the kernel and attach/detach needed MTD
devices later, when your init scripts (loaded from initrd) decide
which exactly MTD device(s) to attach. This also makes testing
a lot easier.

The idea is similar to what the device mapper has: UBI creates
an UBI control device, which registers itself in UBI sysfs
hierarchy (/sys/class/ubi/ubi_ctrl) with dynamically allocated
major and minor numbers. The control device has 2 ioctls -
attach MTD device and detach MTD device.

This patch-set applies on top of my other UBI changes and fixes,
which you may find in the UBI git.

I CC Frank and Andreas, as one of the main UBI users. I CC
Arnd as an ioctl expert.

--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)