From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Linux MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.29 1/2] MTD: driver model updates
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:28:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238574492.20906.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904011023560.9213@lnxricardw.se.axis.com>
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:25 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, David Brownell wrote:
>
> > Erasing an MTD partition may require an ioctl forever. :)
>
> Well, I can imagine that one actually being accomplished with a simple
> write to a sysfs file ... but we might not want to make it that simple.
Of course we are talking only about _informational_ interfaces, when
MTD provides various information - size, name, type, etc.
Of course erasing, marking blocks bad, etc should be implemented
as ioctl.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-26 7:42 [patch/rfc 2.6.29 1/2] MTD: driver model updates David Brownell
2009-03-31 21:18 ` David Brownell
2009-03-31 23:51 ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-01 13:43 ` Juergen Beisert
2009-04-01 1:17 ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-01 3:21 ` David Brownell
2009-04-01 4:49 ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-01 6:36 ` David Brownell
2009-04-01 7:29 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2009-04-01 7:51 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-01 8:05 ` David Brownell
2009-04-01 8:25 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2009-04-01 8:28 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-04-02 23:41 ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-03 7:03 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-03 7:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-03 20:00 ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-04 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-04 16:17 ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-04 16:20 ` David Brownell
2009-04-04 16:29 ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-04 17:18 ` David Brownell
2009-04-06 5:34 ` Greg KH
2009-04-03 10:04 ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-03 17:24 ` David Brownell
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