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From: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
To: dedekind@infradead.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Aubrey <aubreylee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mount costs too long
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:15:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4554A592.5000308@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163174898.3925.13.camel@sauron>

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:48 +0800, Aubrey wrote:
>  
>
>>I got a clue from YAFFS mailing list, this is a known issue on 2.6.18 kernels.
>>It is caused by the MTD layer rework and corresponding yaffs-mtd layer
>>modifications. Namely, an additional translation had to be implemented
>>for OOB area for 512b page chips.
>>    
>>
>
>Is it possible to describe this in more details? And why YAFFS people do
>not fix this?
>
>  
>
This is more a yaffs1 problem rather than MTD's. The thing is that
yaffs1 blindly presumes SmartMedia OOB layout which is untrue for most
flashes, so an additional translation was implemented within yaffs1.

Vitaly

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-10 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-10  7:05 mount costs too long Aubrey
2006-11-10 11:56 ` Josh Boyer
2006-11-10 14:48   ` Aubrey
2006-11-10 16:08     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-11-10 16:15       ` Vitaly Wool [this message]
2006-11-10 16:26         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-11-10 16:34           ` Vitaly Wool
2006-11-10 17:01             ` Claudio Lanconelli
2006-11-10 17:05               ` Vitaly Wool
2006-11-10 17:15             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2006-11-11 14:11               ` Aubrey

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