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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	"dwmw2@infradead.org" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"andrew@lunn.ch" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mtd: mchp23k256: add partitioning support
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 15:23:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170601222320.GE102137@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bba73e6d5f4b41a88423287300d892e5@svr-chch-ex1.atlnz.lc>

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 09:30:07PM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> On 02/06/17 06:43, Brian Norris wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:29:11PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> >> Can we fix allocate_partition() to properly handle the
> >> master->erasesize == 0 case instead of doing that?
> >
> > Is everything actually ready for the eraseblock size to be 0?
> 
> That was my initial motivation for faking it.

Understood. I think it's probably better to avoid hacking drivers like
you were about to, but I was also curious if anyone had thought through
the implications of *not* forcing a non-zero size.

> > That would
> > seem surprising to many applications, I would think. Can you, for
> > instance, even use UBI on such a device?
> 
> I've tried ext2 and I believe Andrew has tried minix fs. We're talking 
> SRAM so UBI/UBIFS doesn't really provide much benefit for this use-case.

Right. But that's not necessarily true for all NO_ERASE devices, so we'd
probably want to think about that before allowing it.

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-01 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-17  5:39 [PATCH 0/4] mtd: mchp23k256: device tree and mchp23lcv1024 Chris Packham
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] mtd: mchp23k256: Add OF device ID table Chris Packham
2017-05-17 11:44   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] mtd: mchp23k256: switch to mtd_device_register() Chris Packham
2017-05-17 11:48   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] mtd: mchp23k256: add partitioning support Chris Packham
2017-05-17 14:18   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17 15:29   ` Boris Brezillon
2017-05-22  4:52     ` Chris Packham
2017-05-22  7:38       ` Boris Brezillon
2017-06-01 18:43     ` Brian Norris
2017-06-01 20:47       ` Boris Brezillon
2017-06-01 22:01         ` Brian Norris
2017-06-02  9:04           ` Boris Brezillon
2017-06-08 23:21             ` Brian Norris
2017-06-01 21:30       ` Chris Packham
2017-06-01 22:23         ` Brian Norris [this message]
2017-06-01 23:08           ` Chris Packham
2017-06-08 23:18             ` Brian Norris
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] mtd: mchp23k256: Add support for mchp23lcv1024 Chris Packham
2017-05-17 12:17   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-18  4:36   ` Chris Packham
2017-05-17 11:41 ` [PATCH 0/4] mtd: mchp23k256: device tree and mchp23lcv1024 Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17 14:19 ` Andrew Lunn

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