linux-kernel - Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.29 1/2] MTD: driver model updates

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Message-ID: <ac3eb2510903311651i4c5f6805tc74fe04ee765be9c@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 01:51:48 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	Linux MTD <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.29 1/2] MTD: driver model updates

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 23:18, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 March 2009, David Brownell wrote:
>> From: David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>
>>
>> Update driver model support in the MTD framework, so it fits
>> better into the current udev-based hotplug framework:
>
> Hmm, no comments?  I had understood there was interest over on
> the MTD side of things in exposing more information through
> sysfs, to help avoid the need to add Even More Ioctls as part
> of support for things like NAND chips with 4KB pages, or which
> handle more than 4GBytes ...

Please have a look at this. We got asked repeatedly to provide better
hotplug/udev integration, and the patches, and having the parent
device properly assigned, would solve some of the problems people run
into currently.

Thanks,
Kay
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