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UBI: Wire-up fastmap

Make fastmap known to Kconfig, UBI Makefile and MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Richard Weinberger 12 years ago
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      MAINTAINERS
  2. 21 0
      drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig
  3. 1 0
      drivers/mtd/ubi/Makefile

+ 6 - 0
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 <richard@nod.at>
+L:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap.c
+
 USB ACM DRIVER
 M:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
 L:	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org

+ 21 - 0
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

+ 1 - 0
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