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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Vipin Malik <vmalik@danielind.com>
Cc: Amit D Chaudhary <amitc@brocade.com>,
	Vipin Malik <Vipin.Malik@daniel.com>,
	"'mtd@infradead.org'" <mtd@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not r egister block device!
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:22:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20729.982916567@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A957005.3400694E@danielind.com>


vmalik@danielind.com said:
>  Also, as far as reading goes, there is no real difference between the
> mtd0 device and the block device (i.e. reading from mtd0 does not get
> you anything extra).

Except that the block device is quite a lot of unnecessary overhead (and a 
kernel thread, etc.). Reading directly from the MTD device rather than 
through either the blockdevice or chardevice would be nicer. 

Actually, for 2.4 I'd like to be able to extract a tarball from an MTD 
device directly into ramfs rather than ramdisk. CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-23  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-22  4:19 Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not r egister block device! Vipin Malik
     [not found] ` <3A956884.2050504@brocade.com>
2001-02-22 20:01   ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-23  8:22     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-22 21:55 Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does n ot " David Woodhouse
2001-02-22 22:41 ` Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not " Vipin Malik
2001-02-23  8:24   ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-23 18:02     ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-23 17:37       ` David Woodhouse

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