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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD] BLOCK_RO: Readonly Block Device Layer Over MTD
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On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 15:35 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 07:33 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Because we've consistently told people not to do that.
>=20
> OK, but why ?
>=20

I didn't review this, but I don't see anything bad to do like this

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2004-May/009683.html

for mtdblock_ro.

What are the objections?


--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
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