From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Roman Tereshonkov <roman.tereshonkov@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mtd: add new ioctl structures to be used for repartitioning
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:19:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007201119.17747.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279512386.16247.70.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Monday 19 July 2010, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 20:22 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Yes, that's generally true. It would be nice if the BLKPG ioctl
> > definition could be reused for this. It is more complicated
> > than it should be, but not more than this suggestion, and
> > it's an existing ioctl.
>
> Thanks for reply.
>
> MTD devices do not support BLKPG, do you mean we should you the same
> data-structures and names as block devices?
Yes. I'm not sure if it should also be possible to actually repartition
the flash using the mtdblock driver, but what I meant was to implement
the BLKPG API in the mtdchar driver, with slightly adapted semantics.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-20 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 10:08 [PATCH 0/4] mtd: add mtd repartition ioctl Roman Tereshonkov
2010-06-18 10:08 ` [PATCH 1/4] mtd: add new ioctl structures to be used for repartitioning Roman Tereshonkov
2010-06-18 10:08 ` [PATCH 2/4] mtd: add the possibility to modify partitions in runtime Roman Tereshonkov
2010-06-18 10:08 ` [PATCH 3/4] mtd: add MTDREPARTITION ioctl Roman Tereshonkov
2010-06-18 10:08 ` [PATCH 4/4] mtd: create the mtd master device for given set of partitions Roman Tereshonkov
2010-07-18 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] mtd: add new ioctl structures to be used for repartitioning Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-18 20:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-19 4:06 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-20 9:19 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-07-20 9:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-08 5:50 ` [PATCH 0/4] mtd: add mtd repartition ioctl Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-21 9:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-21 11:44 ` Vivek
2010-07-21 11:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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