Re: [PATCH 41/44 take 2] [UBI] gluebi unit header

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Feb 19 2007 - 07:30:32 EST


On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:04:30PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> No, the MTD interface isn't flawed. gluebi is present to make things like
> JFFS2 work on top of UBI volumes with very little adaptations. If you go
> changing _every_ MTD user to now use either an MTD device or a native UBI
> device, then the code for those users just gets bloated.

That's not what Arnd means. We really want only one mtd interface that
works transparently with both physical and stackable devices. That means
instead of adding a new ubi interface you want to add support for stackable
devices to mtd.

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