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From: "Shailesh P. Shirali" <shailesh@teneoris.com>
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Subject: mtd partitions in user space
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hello,
      My user-space application needs to know the
partition table as in contents /proc/mtd. Can I 
achieve this through ioctls...basically want to avoid 
parsing the /proc/mtd file itself.
    pls give me some pointers on this

thanks
Shailesh P Shirali