[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/8 v2] UBIFS: Implement read-only UBIFS support in U-Boot (Part 1)

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Stefan Roese,

In message <1236866146-22095-1-git-send-email-sr at denx.de> you wrote:
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> 
> This patchset adds UBIFS read-only support to U-Boot. The following
> commands are implemented:
> 
> - ubifsmount
>   Mount an UBIFS volume
> 
> - ubifsls
>   List a directory of the mounted UBIFS volume
> 
> - ubifsload
>   Load a file from the mounted UBIFS volume to memory
> 
> The U-Boot UBIFS implementation is largely a direct copy from the current
> Linux version (2.6.29-rc6). As already done in the UBI version we have an
> "abstraction layer" to redefine or remove some OS calls (e.g. mutex_lock()
> ...). This makes it possible to use the original Linux code with very
> little changes. And by this we can better update to later Linux versions.
> 
> I removed some of the Linux features that are not used in the U-Boot
> version (e.g. garbage-collection, write support).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind at infradead.org>
> CC: Adrian Hunter <ext-Adrian.Hunter at nokia.com>

I don't understand the split of this patchset into 8 patches, which
all use the very same subject (= commit title line) and commit
message.

It seems the splitting was done just for size reasons, not taking into
account any logic parts that belong together or bi-sectability.


Please explain why this is not just a single commit?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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