From: Richard Weinberger Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:51:50 +0000 (+0200) Subject: UBI: Wire-up fastmap X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=76ac66e469f084d41742ba08923de76fbdc7dce3;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git UBI: Wire-up fastmap Make fastmap known to Kconfig, UBI Makefile and MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy --- diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index fdc0119963e7..7bcade042b0d 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -7075,6 +7075,12 @@ F: drivers/mtd/ubi/ F: include/linux/mtd/ubi.h F: include/mtd/ubi-user.h +UNSORTED BLOCK IMAGES (UBI) Fastmap +M: Richard Weinberger +L: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org +S: Maintained +F: drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap.c + USB ACM DRIVER M: Oliver Neukum L: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig index 271a842f8c39..36663af56d89 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig @@ -56,6 +56,27 @@ config MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT Leave the default value if unsure. +config MTD_UBI_FASTMAP + bool "UBI Fastmap (Experimental feature)" + default n + help + Important: this feature is experimental so far and the on-flash + format for fastmap may change in the next kernel versions + + Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device + in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it + only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device. + The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach + the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where + attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install + a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI module parameter + fm_autoconvert to 1 if you want so. Please note that fastmap-enabled + images are still usable with UBI implementations without + fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap fits + into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps. + + If in doubt, say "N". + config MTD_UBI_GLUEBI tristate "MTD devices emulation driver (gluebi)" help diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/Makefile b/drivers/mtd/ubi/Makefile index a0803ac74712..b46b0c978581 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/Makefile +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/Makefile @@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_UBI) += ubi.o ubi-y += vtbl.o vmt.o upd.o build.o cdev.o kapi.o eba.o io.o wl.o attach.o ubi-y += misc.o debug.o +ubi-$(CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP) += fastmap.o obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_UBI_GLUEBI) += gluebi.o