linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: Edit comments on deprecation of ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT

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Message-ID: <1284972552.2286.51.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:49:12 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc:	Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@...esas.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Sneha Narnakaje <nsnehaprabha@...com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Edit comments on deprecation of ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT

On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 23:57 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> ** Applies to l2-mtd-2.6.git: master **
> 
> There were some improvements and additions necessary in the
> comments explaining of the expansion of nand_ecclayout, the
> introduction of nand_ecclayout_user, and the deprecation of the
> ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT.
> 
> Also, I found a better placement for the macro MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES;
> next to the definition of MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES in mtd-abi.h. The macro
> is really only important for the ioctl code (found in drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c)
> but since there are small edits being made to the user-space header, I
> figured this is a better location.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>

Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git / master, thanks.

Note, I rebased the l2 tree an put this patch next to the "parent"
patch:

commit 728d7eef6c0ff50cb9b327ff7c02830c707f2bbc
Author: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 24 18:12:00 2010 -0700

    mtd: nand: expand nand_ecc_layout, deprecate ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT

This is just more logical to keep them together.

Thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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