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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: apgmoorthy <moorthy.apg@samsung.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David.Woodhouse@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD-UTILS] Add support for 4KB page flash devices
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:48:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222404533.5012.1.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c9fda240809251728u71366888s9cf81b4eac99472d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 09:28 +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> > We can now use these utilities on 4KB devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rohit Hagargundgi <h.rohit@samsung.com>
> > ---
> 
> Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>

Err, isn't this ABI change which is going to break backward
compatibility and is NO-NO in Linux?

> >  }
> > --- a/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h     2008-09-23 15:36:26.000000000 +0530
> > +++ b/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h     2008-09-23 15:48:48.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct nand_oobinfo {
> >        uint32_t useecc;
> >        uint32_t eccbytes;
> >        uint32_t oobfree[8][2];
> > -       uint32_t eccpos[32];
> > +       uint32_t eccpos[128];
> >  };

Err, isn't this ABI change which is going to break backward
compatibility and is NO-NO in Linux?

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19 12:41 [PATCH] [MTD-UTILS] Add support for 4KB page flash devices AYYANARPONNUSAMY GANGHEYAMOORTHY
2008-09-22  6:22 ` Kyungmin Park
2008-09-22  9:19   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-23 11:25   ` apgmoorthy
2008-09-26  0:28     ` Kyungmin Park
2008-09-26  4:48       ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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