Re: [PATCH v2] phram: Allow the user to set the erase page size.

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Fri Dec 04 2020 - 03:53:46 EST


On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:14 AM Guohua Zhong <zhongguohua1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Permit the user to specify the erase page size as a parameter.
> This solves two problems:
>
> - phram can access images made by mkfs.jffs2. mkfs.jffs2 won't
> create images with erase sizes less than 8KiB; many architectures
> define PAGE_SIZE as 4KiB.
>
> - Allows more effective use of small capacity devices. JFFS2
> needs somewhere between 2 and 5 empty pages for garbage collection;
> and for an NVRAM part with only 32KiB of space, a smaller erase page
> allows much better utilization in applications where garbage collection
> is important.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Grady <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJ7m5OqYv_=JB9NhHsqBsa8YU0DFRoP7C+W10PY22wonAGJK=A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [Guohua Zhong: fix token array index out of bounds and update patch for kernel master branch]
> Signed-off-by: Guohua Zhong <zhongguohua1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, except the authorship.
If I understand correctly, you took this old patch and resend it.
Please make sure that the "From:"-Line contains the original author.
You can fix this up using git commit --amend --author=.
The git format-patch will create a correct patch.

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Thanks,
//richard