From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Evans <spse@secret.org.uk>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: default readv/writev functions
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:19:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030115001930.GD19834@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5351.1042586313@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Tue, 14 January 2003 23:18:33 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de said:
> > IMHO this is the wrong place. This should go into drivers/mtd/chips/
> > cfi_cmdset*.c.
>
> I disagree. All chips -- or at least all NOR chips -- are going to want to
> use the same implmementation it because there's almost no point in actually
> having their own.
How about the STMicro flashes with built-in ecc checks? Write less
than 8 bytes per vector element and you're dead.
Other than that, you are right. A central version is better for almost
all chips.
> Maybe having it in chips/chipreg.c makes almost as much sense, but there
> are standalone devices like the LART driver which would want it.
Makes sense.
Jörn
--
But this is not to say that the main benefit of Linux and other GPL
software is lower-cost. Control is the main benefit--cost is secondary.
-- Bruce Perens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-14 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-11 15:35 default readv/writev functions Simon Evans
2003-01-14 21:45 ` Jörn Engel
2003-01-14 23:18 ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-15 0:19 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2003-01-15 0:23 ` David Woodhouse
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