From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Mqoy7-0002VH-OM for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:06:52 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:06:39 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: Corentin Chary Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for UBI and UBIFS Message-ID: <20090924140639.GB27905@nb.net.home> References: <1251112316-18971-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1251112316-18971-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> Cc: util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:11:53PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote: > Hi, > Here is some patchs to add support for UBI and UBIFS in libblkid. > > UBIFS works on top of UBI volumes, there are 3 subsystems involved: > * MTD subsystem, which provides uniform interface to access flash chips. > MTD provides an notion of MTD devices (e.g., /dev/mtd0) which basically represents raw flash; > * UBI subsystem, which is a wear-leveling and volume management system for flash devices; > UBI works on top of MTD devices and provides a notion of UBI volumes (e.g.m /dev/ubi0_0); > * UBIFS file system, which works on top of UBI volumes. Applied. Please, "git pull" and test "mics-utils/blkid -p" against a real UBI device. I did some minor changes to the code (it was necessary to rebase your patches to the current HEAD). Thanks for your patience :-) Karel -- Karel Zak