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Message-Id: <1219817017.18027.149.camel@sauron>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:03:37 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	Tim Anderson <tanderson@...sta.com>
Cc:	Bruce_Leonard@...inc.com,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mtd-bounces@...ts.infradead.org,
	"'David Woodhouse'" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"'Bruce Leonard'" <brucle@...thlink.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:01 -0700, Tim Anderson wrote:
> I have been experimenting with this. I think there is at least 3 maybe 4
> IOCTLS that are going to need to have a LARGE mode. The 2 most obvious are
> MEMGETINFO and MEMERASE.

dwmw2 vetoed any MEMGETINFO ioctl changes, or new similar ioctls, and it
kind of make sense, because we should use sysfs instead. But this, in
turn, means implementing sysfs support for MTD, because MTD is not
LinuxDeviceModel-enabled at the moment.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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