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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] better prototypes for mtd_blktrans_ops methods
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:14:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056446059.29264.388.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030622183130.GA5109@lst.de>

On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ->open and ->release lose the totally pointless inode and file
> arguments, ->ioctl gets replaced by ->getgeo and ->flush, removing
> duplicated code from the individual drivers and avoiding to sneak
> more ioctl mess.. :)

Cute, thanks. I've changed it around a bit so the ->getgeo() methods
don't actually write to userspace, and the core mtd_blkdevs code fills
in the partition start sector appropriately too. It's in Linus' tree as
of last night.

-- 
dwmw2

      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-22 18:31 [PATCH] better prototypes for mtd_blktrans_ops methods Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-24  9:14 ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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