Hi!

Sorry for the lame reply, I had to pull this mail out of a mailing list archive.

Improve UBI user space tools

; Summary: Improve UBI userspace tools

; Proposer: Ezequiel Garc?a <ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar>

== Description ==
Currently the UBI tools are a bit messy and not straight-forward to use.
In addition, there are quite a few different -yet related- commands to
accomplish different stages of an UBI/UBIFS preparation or flashing.

A possible way of dealing with such complexity would be revisiting
these tools and introduce a new centralized tool (git-like), with sub-commands
for the different tasks.

The benefit of this effort is obviously to simplify the (exceedingly)
complicated
task of dealing with UBI and UBI volumes setup, both off-box and
in-box (presumably
for developers testings).

For instance, the ubinize tool requires the setup of an 'ini' file specifying
the volumes configuration, which is usually a bit annoying.

IMHO we should not only focus on the user interface.
Customers often ask me for the following two features:

- A tool to extract files from an UBIFS image (AKA ubidump).
- Fastmap support for the ubinize tool to generate fastmap enabled UBI images.

If it's not too late it would nice to see that wishes in the proposal too.

Thanks,
//richard

On Friday, November 08, 2013 2:41 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:

IMHO we should not only focus on the user interface.
Customers often ask me for the following two features:

- A tool to extract files from an UBIFS image (AKA ubidump).
- Fastmap support for the ubinize tool to generate fastmap enabled UBI images.

If it's not too late it would nice to see that wishes in the proposal too.

I added the information to the proposal. It *is* a bit late, as we've
already had our technical meetings to review these proposals.
We are now waiting on approval from the workgroup steering
committee for funding for specific projects. (I'm not identifying
the selected projects yet, because of that.)

Thanks for the ideas, though. I think they are interesting.
-- Tim