On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:35 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> The U-Boot UBIFS implementation is largely a direct copy from the current
> Linux version (2.6.29-rc6). As already done in the UBI version we have an
> "abstraction layer" to redefine or remove some OS calls (e.g. mutex_lock()
> ...). This makes it possible to use the original Linux code with very
> little changes. And by this we can better update to later Linux versions.
> 
> I removed some of the Linux features that are not used in the U-Boot
> version (e.g. garbage-collection, write support).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>
> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedek...@infradead.org>
> CC: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hun...@nokia.com>

Hi Stefan, your request to help you with removing more stuff is still
in my TODO list - I just do not have time for it.

In short - all this LEB categorization and heaps are also needed for
R/O FS and you may remove that large piece of code as well.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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