Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030656Ab2HQHCf (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:02:35 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:38744 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030609Ab2HQHCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:02:30 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,783,1336374000"; d="asc'?scan'208";a="187614531" Message-ID: <1345187208.27859.3.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] UBI: replace MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT with user-space parameter From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com To: Shmulik Ladkani Cc: Richard Genoud , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:06:48 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20120816165027.6520c4f4@pixies.home.jungo.com> References: <1341937423-16516-1-git-send-email-richard.genoud@gmail.com> <1341937423-16516-5-git-send-email-richard.genoud@gmail.com> <20120816115713.726da8f2@pixies.home.jungo.com> <1345123718.3393.235.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <20120816165027.6520c4f4@pixies.home.jungo.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-dNPF8/SWYIreIrZPrKEy" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-3.fc16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2236 Lines: 59 --=-dNPF8/SWYIreIrZPrKEy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 16:50 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote: > Yes, but the main drawback I was referring to is those platforms already > setting MTD_UBI_BEB_RESERVE other than the default, by means of kernel > configuration. > (there's one platform known to do so in its defconfig, that's > sam9_l9260_defconfig, which uses 3% instead of the "standard" 2%). Yes, I understand this. I think there are few such systems and many of them are fine to pass the parameter explicitly. > We force these systems to change their usermode because we changed ubi's > default BEB limit to be 20/1024 _hardcoded_ (instead of kernel > configurable as previously was). Not necessarily, they can come to us and ask to add the kernel option. > Is this ok? It is not ideal, but I am willing to take this risk. --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy --=-dNPF8/SWYIreIrZPrKEy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJQLe2IAAoJECmIfjd9wqK0gsUP/24p+5MxWjf48RMU/90T8f+k H5movsNmYArcOduzG6ZQn+qYg/MQIy0juDJclEFT/HT8UJ8LlXfewNjz/aHVZ9nF 0Qe0PS15vwT1Z+D9ykYnkpHRFbxVCBwvGmDtd7Udbm4S0EGhnsEHMiwNOYimAc1r tL+mrDZ81dS6UovafVtn3PdwpjVSxNkXMrwLnOL3kp4WQneKOPCjC/gSfhHvpau4 T7j6SpvpGOjV+i97tIpaHZLsDZpKsLY/c0OOqZ2J2vue7Za2Vkz6g4Ma3RqaGcxW PjlyuRJDDev0FxrVP9jsziJESQGNJsj+y1zu4TE/Wbb/vV8zdYNSZt0X3y2RQcFx IQCNlnZ6FThYynS+0llfUu9C0VauVjxbv2s/Bl0HwOzh/Wrt/OHlERhw7aITyJvy kOWeb9dgOc5XVOaXW6Y8XVMF2URtXOiUO7AJL2s9E0cuE3YmXuqeyHy2QLRTYIn6 zi+lbz3PocHQXka9nMhifLUq+L1hbvHyhxAteWxJFbkGjU0czdSPIS8ChVbcmj9k wSg1ekN82yuxgclI2e5VIUI0V1DRut0jnk6/1ZNapmSMKBCH61z/wbVCpJ7jp8Yn VIASnT+dANbyA/sP02aDw0MdCGbng7oNYdqi6Ds5BZ8OObrUu7DNEVzdTvxzQNnE hqUX0sWLZWF087eFVTWG =5h0C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dNPF8/SWYIreIrZPrKEy-- -- 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/