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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:44:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Trent Piepho <tpiepho@...escale.com>
To:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
cc:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
	linux-mtd-bounces@...ts.infradead.org,
	"'Bruce Leonard'" <brucle@...thlink.net>, Bruce_Leonard@...inc.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Anderson <tanderson@...sta.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:34 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > They certainly can, but should they?  There may be some reason to prefer
> > sysfs that should be self-evident - except that I'm a bit thick and seem
> > to need it spelled out.  Or maybe I've just become disillusioned with
> > the practice of replacing crappy interfaces (ioctl here) with other
> > crappy interfaces (sysfs here) and having to support both for all
> > eternity.  sysctl, ioctl, proc, sysfs, debugfs, netlink, ... -
> > individually they all suck in their own peculiar way.  But together they
> > create a mess I no longer dare to name.
> 
> The plus of sysfs I see is that I can add more files to expose more
> information in sysfs, while I can not change MEMGETINFO ioctl. E.g., I
> need to expose sub-page size to user-space, and I cannot do this with
> MEMGETINFO.

You can do this with ioctls, if you designed them with extra space and
versioning from the beginning.