[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] mtd-utils: Added mtd-utils-1.2.0

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Fri Apr 3 01:29:01 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:25:34AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Roth <mroth at nessie.de> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Michael> Should the xxx-2005 and xxx-2006 snapshots of mtd-utils be
>  Michael> also removed?
> 
> Yes. They are marked as deprecated, and as I mentioned in the 2009.02
> annoucement [1], I *WILL* remove deprecated stuff to cleanup. We might
> as well do it now as in a few weeks.

There was some claim about Atmel data flash or something like that not being 
properly supported by more recent versions.. I don't know if that's
correct. The relevant people should be sending patches to the linux-mtd
folks I should think.

>  Michael> This will clean up a lot of special handling of different mtd-utils.

Yes.. if there was an mtd-utils release that included mkfs.ubifs, we
could scrub the multiple versions completely..


Hamish
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