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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] mtdblock: Warn if the added for a NAND device
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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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