[U-Boot] [0/6] Patch serie UBI min I/O size fixes

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Holger,

> Hi,
>
> Brunck, Holger wrote:
>> This patch serie fixes a problem in the UBI layer. The min I/O size has
>> currently a fixed value of 1 for NOR flashes. But for NOR flashes the min I/O
>> size has to be equal to the size of the writebuffer of the flash. Therefore the
>> mtd layer was enhanced with the writebuffer which was later on used in the ubi
>> layer to set the min I/O size.
>> 
>> This patches fixes problems with flash types with a writebuffersize > 128 Byte
>> and is mainly taken from the similar linux patches. See MTD mailing list posts:
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2010-December/033460.html
>> 
>> Without the u-boot patches attaching to a ubi device with a min I/O buffer
>> larger than 128 would fail.
>> 
>
> with the same changes in the linux kernel we see incompatibilities for the
> UBIFS. Due to this fact the patches should be restrained until this problem is
> solved.
>
> See:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-January/033794.html

Ah, I see.  Thanks for the info.

In defense of my overlapping mail, I can only state that the reference
header in this mail of yours does not point to the earlier thread (check
[1]) and thus I saw it only much later:

> References: <4D41331C.7000302 at keymile.com>
> In-Reply-To: <4D41331C.7000302 at keymile.com>

But anyway, sorry for the noise.

Cheers
  Detlev

[1] http://mid.gmane.org/4D41331C.7000302@keymile.com

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