Re: [PATCH] ubi: Use UBI_LAYOUT_VOLUME_{TYPE, ALIGN}

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Sat Jan 14 2012 - 10:09:39 EST


On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 17:57 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> UBI_LAYOUT_VOLUME_TYPE and UBI_LAYOUT_VOLUME_ALIGN are currently
> defined but not used.
> Use them at least once. 8-)
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

Hi Richard,

This will break backward compatibility - older and current kernels which
do not have this patch will error out when the find a volume without a
name. The right way to do this would be to change the UBI format
version, but you would need a really strong reason for this.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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