UBI: Unsorted Block Images

Hello,

This patch-set contains UBI, which stands for Unsorted Block Images. This is closely related to the memory technology devices Linux subsystem (MTD), so this new piece of software is from drivers/mtd/ubi.

In short, UBI is kind of LVM layer but for flash (MTD) devices. It makes it possible to dynamically create, delete and re-size volumes. But the analogy is not full. UBI also takes care of wear-leveling and bad eraseblocks handling, so UBI completely hides 2 aspects of flash chips which make them very difficult to work with:

1. wear of eraseblocks;
2. bad eraseblocks.

There is some documentation available at:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubi.html

The sources are available via the GIT tree:
git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6.git (stable)
git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/dedekind-ubi-2.6.git (devel)

One can also browse the GIT trees at http://git.infradead.org/

This is the third iteration of the post which has fixed most of the stuff pointed to previously.

 MAINTAINERS                   |    8
 drivers/mtd/Kconfig           |    2
 drivers/mtd/Makefile          |    2
 drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig       |   60 +
 drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig.debug |  153 +++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/Makefile      |    7
 drivers/mtd/ubi/account.c     |  233 +++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c       |  467 +++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c        |  926 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c       |  546 +++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.h       |  146 +++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c         | 1735 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/gluebi.c      |  361 ++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c          | 1445 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.c        |  167 +++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c        | 1478 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/sysfs.c       |  408 +++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h         |  867 ++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/uif.c         |  842 ++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/upd.c         |  359 ++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c         |  360 ++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c        | 1387 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c          | 1761 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/jffs2/fs.c                 |   12
 fs/jffs2/os-linux.h           |    6
 fs/jffs2/wbuf.c               |   24
 include/linux/mtd/ubi.h       |  196 ++++
 include/mtd/Kbuild            |    2
 include/mtd/mtd-abi.h         |    1
 include/mtd/ubi-header.h      |  371 ++++++++
 include/mtd/ubi-user.h        |  163 +++
 31 files changed, 14495 insertions(+)

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)