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Subject: Re: Driver-specific ioctls
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:30 +1300, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> I came across a situation the other day where I wanted to get some more
> esoteric data from an MTD chip driver into userspace (mostly for
> debugging purposes).  Sadly (at least in 2.6.15) mtdchar doesn't pass
> any unrecognised ioctls to the MTD driver, which seems like the cleanest
> way to do that sort of thing.

Add sysfs support to mtd and export nearly any data outside.

--=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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