Messages in this thread | | | From | Miquel Raynal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtdblock: Update old JFFS2 mention in Kconfig | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2021 22:05:46 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 23:45:07 UTC, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > JFFS2 can be mounted without 'mtdblock' since > a really, really long time. Some git-log > archaeology shows that in 2006 it was possible > to use 'root=' to mount a JFFS2 rootfs: > > commit e9482b4374e2596e6f3f1ab30c4ea469f4ac6311 > Author: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de> > Date: Tue May 30 14:25:46 2006 +0200 > > [MTD] Allow alternate JFFS2 mount variant for root filesystem. > > With this patch, "root=mtd3" and "root=mtd:foo" work for a JFFS2 rootfs. > > However, there are still plenty of tutorials that mention > mtdblock, so users are still taking this route. Update the Kconfig > to reflect this is no longer needed. > > 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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