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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] libmtd: add helper funcs for getting fds, regioninfo, and locked info
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:56:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1307429769.11104.47.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307429436.11104.43.camel@localhost>

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 09:50 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> We indeed have -m option in mtdutils which opens a device by its number.
> But I think it was a mistake. Generally, MTD devices can have any name,
> it is up to udev configuration. So I'd rather deprecate and would
> require a list of device node names.

Sorry, I was not clear. I wanted to say that supports -m and does
hard-code the mtd device name. But this was a mistake because it gives a
bad example, and adding more hard-coded names is bad.

So I think this option can be deprecated and removed, and we should only
accept full device node names.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-07  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-07  6:19 [PATCH 1/6] jffs2: make lzo optional at build time Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  6:19 ` [PATCH 2/6] mtdinfo: send help/version info to stdout Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  6:36   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07 15:00     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 11:10       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  8:40   ` Florian Fainelli
2011-06-07 15:02   ` [PATCH v2] ubi-utils: " Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 11:13     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  6:19 ` [PATCH 3/6] libmtd: use O_CLOEXEC Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  6:45   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  6:19 ` [PATCH 4/6] libmtd: add helper funcs for getting fds, regioninfo, and locked info Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  6:50   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  6:56     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-06-07  7:04       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  7:30         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07 15:28   ` [PATCH v2] libmtd: add helper funcs for getting regioninfo " Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07 15:52     ` [PATCH v3] " Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 11:47       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-08 18:10         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 11:52     ` [PATCH v2] " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-08 12:27       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-08 18:12         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  6:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] mtdinfo: add regioninfo/sectormap display Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  7:41   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07 15:31     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 13:41       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-08 18:14         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07 15:53   ` [PATCH v2] mtdinfo: add regioninfo/eraseblock map display Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 13:35     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-08 18:26       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 19:02     ` [PATCH v3] " Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 19:11       ` [PATCH v4] " Mike Frysinger
2011-06-09  6:25         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  6:19 ` [PATCH 6/6] flash_info: punt in favor of mtdinfo Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  7:43   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07 15:11   ` [PATCH v2] flash_info: deprecate Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 11:15     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  6:34 ` [PATCH 1/6] jffs2: make lzo optional at build time Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  6:59   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-07  7:20     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07  7:16 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07 15:16   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-08 11:28 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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