From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: MTD and EEPROM
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 09:37:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1368427043.3208.21.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366037284.2701.3.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 15:48 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> There is currently no MTD type defined for EEPROM - only RAM, ROM and
> various types of flash.
I do not really know why, may be no one needed it?
> Is there any particular reason for this? Is it simply that EEPROMs tend
> to be rather small and not worth putting filesystems on?
One may want to have access to raw EEPROM without having any
file-system. So bare /dev/mtdX could be useful.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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2013-04-15 14:48 MTD and EEPROM Ben Hutchings
2013-05-13 6:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2013-05-13 15:55 ` Ben Hutchings
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