From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, trimarchimichael@yahoo.it,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, jwboyer@gmail.com, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] jffs2 summary allocation: don't use vmalloc()
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:03:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217491417.9432.23.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807302357.53204.david-b@pacbell.net>
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 23:57 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > Or if not, we could add one more argument to read()/write() which tells
> > whether the memory is contiguous or not. Then the driver would chose how
> > to deal with the buffer.
>
> Is updating all the MTD users in such a way a real possibility?
I need to look closer, but at the first glance it seems that it should
be possible. There are not so many mtd->read/write users.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 19:34 [patch 02/13] jffs2 summary allocation: don't use vmalloc() akpm
2008-07-30 22:39 ` David Brownell
2008-07-30 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-31 5:10 ` David Brownell
2008-07-31 5:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-31 6:57 ` David Brownell
2008-07-31 8:03 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2008-07-31 5:15 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-31 6:56 ` David Brownell
2008-07-31 8:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-31 8:48 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 9:09 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 7:33 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 8:21 ` David Brownell
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