From: "Sudhakar Rajashekhara" <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
To: "'David Woodhouse'" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"'David Brownell'" <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] [MTD] m25p80: memory accessor interface for SPI MTD driver
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:38:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <010b01ca3cf6$98e55c30$cab01490$@raj@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253385381.6317.29.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 00:06:21, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 18:24 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> >
> > If that's going to be possible, shouldn't it work for any
> > MTD device? And the lack of protection bothers me a bit
> > more here than with EEPROMs and NVRAM, since it seems kind
> > of easy to clobber UBI (or JFFS2 etc) data. Maybe there
> > should be a way to make jus a specific partition available
> > this way?
>
> Hrm, I'm unconvinced by the second version of the patch. I don't really
> like adding this to the core MTD code, and I particularly dislike the
> extra ->setup() method in struct mtd_partition.
>
> Couldn't this be done as a wrapper round MTD devices, set up by the
> board driver? Perhaps we could provide a template mtd_macc_{read,write}
> function which board drivers can use, but I don't really like the
> patches I've seen.
>
David,
Can you elaborate a bit more on what you would like to see in this patch?
>From your explanation above I did not understand completely what should
be done.
Regards,
Sudhakar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-03 21:02 [PATCH] [MTD] m25p80: memory accessor interface for SPI MTD driver Sudhakar Rajashekhara
2009-08-04 1:24 ` David Brownell
2009-08-18 7:24 ` Sudhakar Rajashekhara
2009-09-19 18:36 ` David Woodhouse
2009-09-24 9:08 ` Sudhakar Rajashekhara [this message]
2009-09-24 14:33 ` David Woodhouse
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