On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 08:45, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Ezequiel, > > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > > [snip] > > > > Ouch, so surprised that after all these years someone is doing squashfs/mtdblock > > instead of using ubiblock :-) > > > > Can we patch either Kconfig or add some warn_once on mtdblock > > usage, suggesting to use ubiblock instead? > > a hint in Kconfig makes IMHO sense. Do you want to send a patch? > A warning is too much since on some tiny embedded system with NOR flash mtdblock is still > a good choice. > ubiblock is mostly useful for NAND flash. > > > I remember there was still some use case(s) for mtdblock but I can't remember > > now what was it, perhaps we should document the expectations? > > (Is that for JFFS2 to mount?) > > a long time ago mount didn't accept character devices, so you had to pass mtdblockX to mount > JFFS2. > This limitation is gone. > OK, let me try to cook a patch for you. Eze
