From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd/drivers/mtd/nand sharpsl.c,1.4,1.5
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:34:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126020886.8338.164.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050906152238.GC14661@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:22 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 September 2005 16:17:19 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:08 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > > With Ferenc's patch in, MTD_NO_VIRTBLOCKS has lost its effect. I
> > > guess we will remove that flag sometime in the near future.
>
> Actually, this flag is important to *everybody*. Whoever thought up
> the hack to use virtual blocks instead of physical ones was plain
> stupid and opened the door for incompatibilities, data loss and who
> knows what else.
>
> Hence, Ferenc made the flag implicit. Actually, he was a bit smarter
> and only made it implicit when required. Either way, the virtual
> blocks are gone, thankfully.
Ah, so this flag is enabled for everyone now? If so, that's fine. I was
thinking you meant there was no longer a way to disable virtual blocks
which was worrying me, a lot :)
Cheers,
Richard - relived
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2005-09-06 15:08 ` mtd/drivers/mtd/nand sharpsl.c,1.4,1.5 Jörn Engel
2005-09-06 15:17 ` Richard Purdie
2005-09-06 15:22 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-06 15:34 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
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