On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 08:45, Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ezequiel, > > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > > [snip] > > > > Ouch, so surprised that after all these years someone is doing > > squashfs/mtdblock > > instead of using ubiblock :-) > > > > Can we patch either Kconfig or add some warn_once on mtdblock > > usage, suggesting to use ubiblock instead? > > a hint in Kconfig makes IMHO sense. Do you want to send a patch? > A warning is too much since on some tiny embedded system with NOR flash > mtdblock is still > a good choice. > ubiblock is mostly useful for NAND flash. > > > I remember there was still some use case(s) for mtdblock but I can't > > remember > > now what was it, perhaps we should document the expectations? > > (Is that for JFFS2 to mount?) > > a long time ago mount didn't accept character devices, so you had to pass > mtdblockX to mount > JFFS2. > This limitation is gone. >
OK, let me try to cook a patch for you. Eze _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
