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Message-Id: <1219988887.4036.7.camel@sauron>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:48:07 +0300
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To: Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.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>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:25 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > I would like to make udev creating MTD devices, instead of creating them
> > by hands. Adding MTD to LDM would anyway introduce corresponding sysfs
> > files, right? This means we would have one more interface anyway.
>
> Could be useful, I don't mind you sending a patch. However, does this
> means that MEMGETINFO64 or some other ioctl should not be done? Should
> flash_erase open, read and close 8 seperate files instead of doing a
> single ioctl? And should our support for large devices wait for the
> sysfs support that has been talked about and not done for about two
> years already?
Up to dwmw2, but I do not mind if the answer to all the above questions
is "yes" :-)
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
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