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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808270847350.17432@lnxricardw.se.axis.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:49:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@...s.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
cc:	Tim Anderson <tanderson@...sta.com>,
	"linux-mtd-bounces@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-mtd-bounces@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"'Bruce Leonard'" <brucle@...thlink.net>,
	"Bruce_Leonard@...inc.com" <Bruce_Leonard@...inc.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices


On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:20 -0700, Tim Anderson wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Tim, please stop top-posting.
>
> I'm not sure I'd say I _vetoed_ new ioctls, but I certainly expressed a
> desire to do all the information stuff through sysfs. We would need a
> new MEMERASE64 ioctl though.

If the (lack of) sysfs stuff is standing between us and a nice >4GiB mtd I 
for one would think that a set of 64-bit ioctls would be a reasonable 
halfway house.

/Ricard
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