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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:40:17 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	Bruce Leonard <brucle@...thlink.net>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices

Hi Bruce,

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:27 -0700, Bruce Leonard wrote:
> +/*
> + * Inline function for determining the size of the MTD device, independant
> + * of old or new way of doing things.
> + *
> + */
> +static inline u_int64_t device_size(struct mtd_info *a)
> +{
> +	return a->num_eraseblocks == 0 ? a->size : a->num_eraseblocks * a->erasesize;
> +}

I do not think it is a good idea to do multiplication every time we need
MTD device size. It is unnecessarily large overhead in terms of speed
and code size.

Did you consider a possibility of just making mtd->size 64 bit?
Or using eraseblock:offset pairs instead of absolute address?

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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