Hi Wolfgang,
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
This patchset adds UBIFS read-only support to U-Boot. The following commands are implemented:
ubifsmount Mount an UBIFS volume
ubifsls List a directory of the mounted UBIFS volume
ubifsload Load a file from the mounted UBIFS volume to memory
The U-Boot UBIFS implementation is largely a direct copy from the current Linux version (2.6.29-rc6). As already done in the UBI version we have an "abstraction layer" to redefine or remove some OS calls (e.g. mutex_lock() ...). This makes it possible to use the original Linux code with very little changes. And by this we can better update to later Linux versions.
I removed some of the Linux features that are not used in the U-Boot version (e.g. garbage-collection, write support).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese sr@denx.de CC: Artem Bityutskiy dedekind@infradead.org CC: Adrian Hunter ext-Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com
I don't understand the split of this patchset into 8 patches, which all use the very same subject (= commit title line) and commit message.
It seems the splitting was done just for size reasons, not taking into account any logic parts that belong together or bi-sectability.
Correct. Even though it should still be git bisectable.
Please explain why this is not just a single commit?
Sure. It's the list limit. It was my understanding that patches > 100k usually are not accepted on the list. This UBIFS support is approx. 500k in total, so I didn't even try to send it as a single patch.
OK, I'll send the patch to list again in a short while.
Best regards, Stefan
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