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| author | Sidney Amani <seed@uffs.org> | 2009-01-27 10:11:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2009-01-27 16:54:41 +0200 |
| commit | 766fb95ba06e1bbf531d30dc05e21b2d4a0e8dd2 (patch) | |
| tree | a7041e919ca5f6d5460b7d7ecfb27e08b9119236 /include/mtd | |
| parent | 36b477d005fbda29e7581c3cef7ee31a59d8970b (diff) | |
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UBI: allow direct user-space I/O
Introduce a new ioctl UBI_IOCSETPROP to set properties
on a volume. Also add the first property:
UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE, this property is used to set the
ability to use direct writes in userspace
Signed-off-by: Sidney Amani <seed@uffs.org>
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/mtd')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/mtd/ubi-user.h | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/mtd/ubi-user.h b/include/mtd/ubi-user.h index 82113e160a2c..296efae3525e 100644 --- a/include/mtd/ubi-user.h +++ b/include/mtd/ubi-user.h @@ -124,6 +124,14 @@ * To check if a logical eraseblock is mapped to a physical eraseblock, the * %UBI_IOCEBISMAP ioctl command should be used. It returns %0 if the LEB is * not mapped, and %1 if it is mapped. + * + * Set an UBI volume property + * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + * + * To set an UBI volume property the %UBI_IOCSETPROP ioctl command should be + * used. A pointer to a &struct ubi_set_prop_req object is expected to be + * passed. The object describes which property should be set, and to which value + * it should be set. */ /* @@ -175,6 +183,8 @@ #define UBI_IOCEBUNMAP _IOW(UBI_VOL_IOC_MAGIC, 4, int32_t) /* Check if LEB is mapped command */ #define UBI_IOCEBISMAP _IOR(UBI_VOL_IOC_MAGIC, 5, int32_t) +/* Set an UBI volume property */ +#define UBI_IOCSETPROP _IOW(UBI_VOL_IOC_MAGIC, 6, struct ubi_set_prop_req) /* Maximum MTD device name length supported by UBI */ #define MAX_UBI_MTD_NAME_LEN 127 @@ -210,6 +220,16 @@ enum { UBI_STATIC_VOLUME = 4, }; +/* + * UBI set property ioctl constants + * + * @UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE: allow / disallow user to directly write and + * erase individual eraseblocks on dynamic volumes + */ +enum { + UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE = 1, +}; + /** * struct ubi_attach_req - attach MTD device request. * @ubi_num: UBI device number to create @@ -373,4 +393,18 @@ struct ubi_map_req { int8_t padding[3]; } __attribute__ ((packed)); + +/** + * struct ubi_set_prop_req - a data structure used to set an ubi volume + * property. + * @property: property to set (%UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE) + * @padding: reserved for future, not used, has to be zeroed + * @value: value to set + */ +struct ubi_set_prop_req { + uint8_t property; + uint8_t padding[7]; + uint64_t value; +} __attribute__ ((packed)); + #endif /* __UBI_USER_H__ */ |