From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:07:18 +0800 Message-ID: <1179317240.2859.222.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <20070515133759.9ee434a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan , Thomas Gleixner , Jan Engelhardt , Evgeniy Polyakov , Pekka Enberg , Greg KH , Ingo Oeser To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48155 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759498AbXEPMHh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 08:07:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070515133759.9ee434a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > But it includes an MTD header file. >=20 > Can this code be tested by people who don't have MTD hardware? We us= ed to > ahve a fake-mtd-on-a-blockdev thing, whcih was in a state of some > disrepair. Maybe it got repaired. Or removed. I can't immediately = locate > it... There's block2mtd, as J=C3=B6rn pointed out. There's also 'nandsim' and 'mtdram', which will vmalloc some space and use that to emulate NAND or NOR flash, respectively. > It's strange and a bit regrettable that an fs would have dependency o= n MTD, > really. Why? Other file systems has dependencies on BLOCK or on NET. It seems entirely normal to me. --=20 dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html