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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Tim Anderson <tanderson@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org,
	'Bruce Leonard' <brucle@earthlink.net>,
	Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	'David Woodhouse' <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:03:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219817017.18027.149.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c9080a$4ec3a6b0$6b01a8c0@mvista.com>

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:01 -0700, Tim Anderson wrote:
> I have been experimenting with this. I think there is at least 3 maybe 4
> IOCTLS that are going to need to have a LARGE mode. The 2 most obvious are
> MEMGETINFO and MEMERASE.

dwmw2 vetoed any MEMGETINFO ioctl changes, or new similar ioctls, and it
kind of make sense, because we should use sysfs instead. But this, in
turn, means implementing sysfs support for MTD, because MTD is not
LinuxDeviceModel-enabled at the moment.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-27  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <25387440.1219370455174.JavaMail.root@elwamui-cypress.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
2008-08-26 23:55 ` [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices Andrew Morton
2008-08-27  1:21   ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-08-27  1:40     ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27  2:08       ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-27  2:42       ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-08-27  5:56     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27  6:01     ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27  6:03       ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2008-08-27  6:20         ` Tim Anderson
2008-08-27  6:35           ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27  6:49             ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-08-27  7:08               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27  7:10               ` Bruce Leonard
2008-08-27  6:38           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27  8:39           ` Alan Cox
2008-08-27  9:01             ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27 14:34               ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-27 14:47                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-27 15:25                   ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29  5:48                     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-08-29 10:23                       ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29 12:19                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-27 19:44                   ` Trent Piepho

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