From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org,
'Bruce Leonard' <brucle@earthlink.net>,
Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tim Anderson <tanderson@mvista.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
'Andrew Morton' <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:48:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219988887.4036.7.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080827152534.GB1371@logfs.org>
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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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org,
"'Bruce Leonard'" <brucle@earthlink.net>,
Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tim Anderson <tanderson@mvista.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:48:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219988887.4036.7.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080827152534.GB1371@logfs.org>
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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 2:00 [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices Bruce Leonard
2008-08-26 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-26 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-27 1:21 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-08-27 1:21 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-08-27 1:40 ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27 1:40 ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-27 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-27 2:42 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-08-27 2:42 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-08-27 5:56 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 5:56 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 6:01 ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27 6:01 ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27 6:03 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 6:03 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 6:20 ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27 6:20 ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27 6:35 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27 6:35 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27 6:49 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-08-27 6:49 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-08-27 7:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 7:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 7:10 ` Bruce Leonard
2008-08-27 7:10 ` Bruce Leonard
2008-08-27 6:38 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 6:38 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 8:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-27 8:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-27 9:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27 9:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27 14:34 ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-27 14:34 ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-27 14:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 14:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 15:25 ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-27 15:25 ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29 5:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2008-08-29 5:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-29 10:23 ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29 10:23 ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29 12:19 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-29 12:19 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27 19:44 ` Trent Piepho
2008-08-27 19:44 ` Trent Piepho
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