Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932194AbXBSMaF (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:30:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932203AbXBSMaE (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:30:04 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53909 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932194AbXBSM3v (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:29:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:29:48 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Josh Boyer Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Artem Bityutskiy , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Christoph Hellwig , Frank Haverkamp , Thomas Gleixner , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH 41/44 take 2] [UBI] gluebi unit header Message-ID: <20070219122948.GA30602@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Josh Boyer , Arnd Bergmann , Artem Bityutskiy , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Frank Haverkamp , Thomas Gleixner , David Woodhouse References: <20070217165424.5845.4390.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20070217165751.5845.28503.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <200702172214.55654.arnd@arndb.de> <20070218020429.GE1038@crusty.rchland.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070218020429.GE1038@crusty.rchland.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 16 On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:04:30PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > No, the MTD interface isn't flawed. gluebi is present to make things like > JFFS2 work on top of UBI volumes with very little adaptations. If you go > changing _every_ MTD user to now use either an MTD device or a native UBI > device, then the code for those users just gets bloated. That's not what Arnd means. We really want only one mtd interface that works transparently with both physical and stackable devices. That means instead of adding a new ubi interface you want to add support for stackable devices to mtd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/