linux-kernel - Re: Smartmedia/xd card support

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Message-ID: <20080417212138.GA343@logfs.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:21:38 +0200
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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 April 2008 21:11:30 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> 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.

Indeed.  If some janitor or kernel-newbie is looking for a fun project,
most of the code in drivers/usb/storage/*.c can be abstracted out to a
library implementation and possibly combined with drivers/mtd/ssfdc.c,
drivers/mtd/nand/alauda.c and some others.

Jörn

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