From: Bruce Leonard <brucle@earthlink.net>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:27:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AB3AA7.60801@earthlink.net> (raw)
All,
Over the course of the last several months, I've been working on adding support to the kernel for MTD devices that exceed 2GiB in
size. In my particular case I have a need for 8GiB of NAND flash that appears as a single device. I'm now ready to submit my
(first ever) patch (please be kind :) ). Seriously, I've been on this list a LOT during this time and I've gotten nothing but
great support, thank you to the entire list.
A couple of comments. First and foremost, these patches don't completely change the MTD layer. Due to my in-experience outside of
what I was focused on (NAND/UBI/UBIFS/MTDCHAR) I felt it was best if I restricted my changes to what I knew. If the community feels
I need to take these changes into the rest of the kernel please advise. Secondly, there were changes that I needed to make in
mtd-utils, but I again only focused on the UBI sub-set. mtd-utils no longer builds because of the changes, but I really do NOT feel
qualified to make changes to the rest of mtd-utils as they're tools I don't use and don't understand. The changes in mtd-utils are
the same changes as in .../include/linux/mtd/mtd.h and .../include/mtd/mtd-abi.h. If anyone has a suggestion as to how I should
handle mtd-utils I would appreciate it.
Thanks again to everyone on the list who's answered my endless stupid questions.
Bruce
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