1. 28 2月, 2014 1 次提交
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      UBI: R/O block driver on top of UBI volumes · 9d54c8a3
      Ezequiel Garcia 提交于
      This commit introduces read-only block device emulation on top of UBI volumes.
      
      Given UBI takes care of wear leveling and bad block management it's possible
      to add a thin layer to enable block device access to UBI volumes.
      This allows to use a block-oriented filesystem on a flash device.
      
      The UBI block devices are meant to be used in conjunction with any
      regular, block-oriented file system (e.g. ext4), although it's primarily
      targeted at read-only file systems, such as squashfs.
      
      Block devices are created upon user request through new ioctls:
      UBI_IOCVOLATTBLK to attach and UBI_IOCVOLDETBLK to detach.
      Also, a new UBI module parameter is added 'ubi.block'. This parameter is
      needed in order to attach a block device on boot-up time, allowing to
      mount the rootfs on a ubiblock device.
      For instance, you could have these kernel parameters:
      
        ubi.mtd=5 ubi.block=0,0 root=/dev/ubiblock0_0
      
      Or, if you compile ubi as a module:
      
        $ modprobe ubi mtd=/dev/mtd5 block=/dev/ubi0_0
      
      Artem: amend commentaries and massage the patch a little bit.
      Signed-off-by: NEzequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
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