Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:45:44 +0200 (CEST) | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: MTD: How to get actual image size from MTD partition |
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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.
Thanks, //richard
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