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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)

  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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