From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Fix MEMGETINFO and MEMGETREGIONINFO for devices >= 4GB
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:40:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255264842.16942.41.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254904002-24913-1-git-send-email-felix@embedded-sol.com>
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 10:26 +0200, Felix Radensky wrote:
> Currently MEMGETINFO and MEMGETREGIONINFO report invalid
> information for devices >= 4GB, since relevant fields in
> MTD ABI structures are 32-bit while corresponding fields
> in kernel internal structures are 64-bit. Fix ABI fields
> to be 64-bit as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
> ---
> include/mtd/mtd-abi.h | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Nack. As it was discussed several times, you cannot change these data
structure because you will break binary compatibility.
New ioctls is the way out.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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2009-10-07 8:26 [PATCH] MTD: Fix MEMGETINFO and MEMGETREGIONINFO for devices >= 4GB Felix Radensky
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