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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] mtdblock: Update old JFFS2 mention in Kconfig
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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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