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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Aleksander Sanochkin <asanochkin@lnxw.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS1/MTD bug-fixes
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:34:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207163450.A25252@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112070507510.12712-100000@newbast.lynuxworks.com>; from asanochkin@Lnxw.COM on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:11:11AM -0800

Hi!

> > What are your reasons to use mtdchar ioctl()s for runtime
> > repartitioning? This should be pretty independent of the char device,
> > (caching) block device or whatever the future might still bring. Why
> > not a /proc interface?

Au contraire, at least in my case. I do use /proc, but not mtdchar,
since mtdblock is more convenient. A more important point is that
Linus generally favors /proc over ioctl()s, iirc.
Just a suggestion, though.

Jörn

-- 
A security system is only as secure as its secret. 
Beware of pseudo-secrets.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-07 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-07 13:11 JFFS1/MTD bug-fixes Aleksander Sanochkin
2001-12-07 15:34 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-07 13:07 Aleksander Sanochkin
2001-12-07 15:40 ` Jörn Engel
2001-12-04 16:36 Aleksander Sanochkin
2001-12-04 22:18 ` Jörn Engel
2001-12-04 16:30 Aleksander Sanochkin
2001-12-04 22:44 ` Jörn Engel
2001-12-03 15:36 Aleksander Sanochkin
2001-12-03 15:55 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-04  9:07   ` Jörn Engel
2001-11-30 17:29 Aleksander Sanochkin
2001-12-01 10:47 ` David Woodhouse

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