From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:28:46 +0000 Subject: Re: New rule for xD FTL driver Message-Id: <1276597726.314.14.camel@macbook.infradead.org> List-Id: References: <1276347244.4481.15.camel@maxim-laptop> In-Reply-To: <1276347244.4481.15.camel@maxim-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:07 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > Maybe not statically linked in it, but I am not against making mtd core > load all compiled FTL drivers as soon as an mtd device is registred. > > David Woodhouse, what do you think about that? I'm not massively keen on that. An FTL is like a file system. Would you insist on loading all compiled file systems when an mtd device is registered? Would you submit udev patches which auto-load btrfs when a block device is registered, such as the patch I see in the mail to which I'm replying? -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation