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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] mtd: Add a 'block unused' ioctl call to provide hints to block drivers
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:38:55 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020101041253.GC4106@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172850894.11149.126.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi!

> Knowing that the data in a given block is now unused is a useful
> feature that some block drivers can take advantage of, especially 
> when dealing with devices like flash.
> 
> This adds an ioctl which allows such hints to be passed to the

Maybe Documentation/ piece would be nice if this can be called from
userspace....

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-02 15:54 [PATCH 6/9] mtd: Add a 'block unused' ioctl call to provide hints to block drivers Richard Purdie
2007-03-05 21:38 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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