From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/74] Incrementing the ecc_pos array to contain 128 char From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Brian Norris In-Reply-To: <4C7F4526.105@gmail.com> References: <07ce8daf18d3a9f13864752074af3490a324d84c.1283161023.git.viresh.kumar@st.com> <1283170469.12995.53.camel@brekeke> <4C7CA278.9040902@st.com> <1283297810.2018.67.camel@brekeke> <4C7DD2FD.1080501@st.com> <1283337939.1958.20.camel@brekeke> <4C7E3344.2020202@st.com> <4C7EC43B.2050903@bluewatersys.com> <4C7ED1E9.4050208@bluewatersys.com> <4C7F4526.105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:49:37 +0300 Message-ID: <1283420977.1748.6.camel@brekeke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Pratyush ANAND , Viresh KUMAR , Vipul Kumar SAMAR , Bhupesh SHARMA , Armando VISCONTI , Kevin Cernekee , Vipin Kumar , Shiraz HASHIM , Ryan Mallon , Rajeev KUMAR , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Deepak SIKRI , "dwmw2@infradead.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 23:33 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > I'm curious how many applications actually need to have the ecclayout. > nandwrite doesn't actually use it, just oobinfo. That is good point - I think we should not accept new ioctl before the submitter shows us how and for what he will use it. My point is simple - OOB layout should be transparent to users-space. Messing with this is error-prone. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)