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Subject: Re: /proc/mtd and flash information
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On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 16:23 +0300, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:44 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> > It seems to me that /proc/mtd is a little short on information.
> >=20
> > It would be nice to see the type of media (NOR, NAND etc), write and oo=
b=20
> > size (for NAND), perhaps a couple of other things for NAND such as the=20
> > number of bad blocks within a partition.=20
>=20
> Sensible idea, but do it with class_devices in sysfs.

Yeah, definitely. /proc is not the right place for this.

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