Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> 4) no profiling at all
> The profiling code has certainly been useful to you during development,
> and you should keep that code around for your own work on it,
> but maybe you should not push that upstream, because regular users
> are not going to need it.

The profiling is needed to feedback into mkfs.axfs, to decide which pages to
make XIP (in NOR) or not (in NAND). So yes, normal users need it when creating
file systems for a mixed NOR/NAND FLASH system.

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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