Hi Vikram, On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Vikram Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/2/2012 8:24 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote: >> >> UBI can mount volumes by name or number The current code forces you >> to name the volume by prepending every name with "ubi:". >> >> From fs/ubifs/super.c >> * There are several ways to specify UBI volumes when mounting UBIFS: >> * o ubiX_Y - UBI device number X, volume Y; >> * o ubiY - UBI device number 0, volume Y; >> * o ubiX:NAME - mount UBI device X, volume with name NAME; >> * o ubi:NAME - mount UBI device 0, volume with name NAME. >> >> Now any name passed in any of the above forms are allowed. > > > What exactly are we gaining from this naming compared to the default? > In what way the old naming affects the end user?
The reason I needed this change is so that I could specify the volume by number in a script instead of being forced to know the name. In Linux you can use the volume number using the format above (it's the same code). -Joe _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
