Messages in this thread | | | From | Miquel Raynal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtdblock: Warn if the added for a NAND device | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2021 22:05:37 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 23:45:09 UTC, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > There is a surprisingly large number of tutorials > that suggest using mtdblock to mount SquashFS filesystems > on flash devices, including NAND devices. > > This approach is suboptimal than using UBI. If the flash device > is NAND, this is specially true, due to wear leveling, bit-flips and > badblocks. In this case UBI is strongly preferred, so be nice to users > and print a warning suggesting to consider UBI block, if mtdblock > is added for a NAND device. > > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.
Miquel
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