linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [MTD] mtdchar.c: Fix regression in MEMGETREGIONINFO ioctl()

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Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:37:37 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Zev Weiss <zevweiss@...il.com>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD] mtdchar.c: Fix regression in MEMGETREGIONINFO
	ioctl()

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 22:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > On the other hand, if I'm missing something completely, please let me know,
> > and perhaps I can prepare a more suitable fix.
> 
> "good enough" is never good enough ;)
> 
> What is the ideal implementation?  Let's implement that.

It involves ditching the ioctls altogether (well, not adding anything
_more_ to them, at least) and doing it through sysfs.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation



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