From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DA6C4338F for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D215B61184 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244578AbhHFUGF (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2021 16:06:05 -0400 Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.231]:45513 "EHLO relay11.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238487AbhHFUGE (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2021 16:06:04 -0400 Received: (Authenticated sender: miquel.raynal@bootlin.com) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DAE5100003; Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:05:47 +0000 (UTC) From: Miquel Raynal To: Ezequiel Garcia , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger Cc: Miquel Raynal , Vignesh Raghavendra Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtdblock: Update old JFFS2 mention in Kconfig Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 22:05:46 +0200 Message-Id: <20210806200546.394389-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.27.0 In-Reply-To: <20210801234509.18774-6-ezequiel@collabora.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-linux-mtd-patch-notification: thanks X-linux-mtd-patch-commit: b'6bc219b7b2cdd9d45ea15926d32c5e5c1d63881e' Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 23:45:07 UTC, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > JFFS2 can be mounted without 'mtdblock' since > a really, really long time. Some git-log > archaeology shows that in 2006 it was possible > to use 'root=' to mount a JFFS2 rootfs: > > commit e9482b4374e2596e6f3f1ab30c4ea469f4ac6311 > Author: Joern Engel > Date: Tue May 30 14:25:46 2006 +0200 > > [MTD] Allow alternate JFFS2 mount variant for root filesystem. > > With this patch, "root=mtd3" and "root=mtd:foo" work for a JFFS2 rootfs. > > However, there are still plenty of tutorials that mention > mtdblock, so users are still taking this route. Update the Kconfig > to reflect this is no longer needed. > > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks. Miquel