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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][MTD] mtdpart.c: allow other drivers to get physical address of partition
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:55:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185882932.3083.98.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6934efce0707261704p5e46e238i5b7ee433fc4f5bda@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:04 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> +/*
> + * Allow other modules to get the physical address of a given partition
> + */
> +void *mtd_get_partition_physaddr(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> +{
> +       struct mtd_part *part = PART(mtd);
> +       struct map_info *map = part->master->priv;
> +       
> +       return (void *)(map->phys + part->offset);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_get_partition_physaddr); 

The problem with this is that it expects the caller to 'know' that the
mtd device it's using is in fact a partition. If we have to do this, I'd
rather see it done generically. Jörn is probably right that it should be
available from (whatever replaces) the point() method.

-- 
dwmw2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27  0:04 [PATCH][MTD] mtdpart.c: allow other drivers to get physical address of partition Jared Hulbert
2007-07-27 13:48 ` Jörn Engel
2007-07-27 17:05   ` Jared Hulbert
2007-07-27 17:44     ` Jörn Engel
2007-07-27 20:53       ` Jared Hulbert
2007-07-28 11:43         ` Jörn Engel
2007-07-28 21:08           ` Jared Hulbert
2007-07-31 11:55 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-07-31 19:55   ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-01 11:55     ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03  1:56       ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-03  3:01         ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03  5:23           ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-03  9:21             ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03  6:42       ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-03 12:47         ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03 22:29           ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-01 12:18     ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-01 12:59       ` Carsten Otte
2007-08-01 20:37         ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-01 23:31           ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-02  7:53           ` Carsten Otte
2007-08-02 21:55             ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-03  7:59               ` Carsten Otte
2007-08-03  9:17                 ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03 11:03                   ` Carsten Otte
2007-08-03 11:31                     ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03 12:21                       ` Carsten Otte
2007-08-03 12:58                         ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03 13:09               ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-03 13:18                 ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-03 19:45                   ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-03 23:02                     ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-04 12:33                     ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-04 17:47                       ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-06  6:30                     ` Carsten Otte
2007-08-03 18:39                 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-08-06  6:23                 ` Carsten Otte
2007-08-01 18:03       ` Jared Hulbert

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