[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3 v3] UBIFS: Implement read-only UBIFS support in U-Boot

Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-23T07:55:46Z

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 09:34 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:35 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > The U-Boot UBIFS implementation is largely a direct copy from the current
> > Linux version (2.6.29-rc6). As already done in the UBI version we have an
> > "abstraction layer" to redefine or remove some OS calls (e.g. mutex_lock()
> > ...). This makes it possible to use the original Linux code with very
> > little changes. And by this we can better update to later Linux versions.
> >
> > I removed some of the Linux features that are not used in the U-Boot
> > version (e.g. garbage-collection, write support).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
> > CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
> > CC: Adrian Hunter <ext-Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>
>
> Hi Stefan, your request to help you with removing more stuff is still
> in my TODO list - I just do not have time for it.
>
> In short - all this LEB categorization and heaps are also needed for
> R/O FS and you may remove that large piece of code as well.

Sorry, I meant "also _NOT_ needed".

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (???????? ?????)