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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.

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Artem Bityutskiy