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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:20:46 -0700
From: "Tim Anderson" <tanderson@...sta.com>
To: <dedekind@...radead.org>
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
Artem,
I see your point. Ioctls are going away after all.
So we should have something like:
/sys/class/mtd/mtd0/
Or just under device or platform?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Artem Bityutskiy [mailto:dedekind@...radead.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:04 PM
> To: Tim Anderson
> Cc: Bruce_Leonard@...inc.com; 'Andrew Morton';
> linux-mtd-bounces@...ts.infradead.org; 'David Woodhouse';
> linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> 'Bruce Leonard'
> 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 (???????? ?????)
>
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