UBI: Kill data type hint

We do not need this feature and to our shame it even was not working
and there was a bug found very recently.
	-- Artem Bityutskiy

Without the data type hint UBI2 (fastmap) will be easier to implement.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
index ad76592fb2f4..f4061126926b 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
@@ -334,8 +334,7 @@ static ssize_t vol_cdev_direct_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
                         break;
                 }
 
-                err = ubi_eba_write_leb(ubi, vol, lnum, tbuf, off, len,
-                                        UBI_UNKNOWN);
+                err = ubi_eba_write_leb(ubi, vol, lnum, tbuf, off, len);
                 if (err)
                         break;
 
@@ -477,9 +476,6 @@ static long vol_cdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
                 if (req.lnum < 0 || req.lnum >= vol->reserved_pebs ||
                     req.bytes < 0 || req.lnum >= vol->usable_leb_size)
                         break;
-                if (req.dtype != UBI_LONGTERM && req.dtype != UBI_SHORTTERM &&
-                    req.dtype != UBI_UNKNOWN)
-                        break;
 
                 err = get_exclusive(desc);
                 if (err < 0)
@@ -532,7 +528,7 @@ static long vol_cdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
                         err = -EFAULT;
                         break;
                 }
-                err = ubi_leb_map(desc, req.lnum, req.dtype);
+                err = ubi_leb_map(desc, req.lnum);
                 break;
         }