linux-kernel - Re: Smartmedia/xd card support

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804172109170.3261@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:11:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
cc:	Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>, Ben Dooks <ben@...ff.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Thu, 17 April 2008 15:38:17 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> > No it is not. SmardMedia is a bare NAND chip, which is already covered
> > by MTD. There are already other FTLs on top of MTD and the SmartMedia
> > format just can be added to those.
> 
> Isn't drivers/mtd/ssfdc.c - despite its name - an implementation of the
> SmartMedia FTL?  When I last looked at it, I failed to see any
> functional differences.

Oops. I did not bother to look into drivers/mtd and for some reason it
slipped out of my memory that it got mainlined. It's read only, but
the missing bits to make it r/w are not that hard. At least less code
than duplicating code all over the place for no good reason.

Thanks,
	tglx