From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jgarzik@pobox.com (Jeff Garzik) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:47:45 -0500 Subject: Q: MTD and NIC Roms... In-Reply-To: <1045117753.9349.22.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> References: <3E4B37CD.8090507@pobox.com> <1045117753.9349.22.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <20030213064745.GA31364@gtf.org> To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-mtd.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:29:13AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 06:14, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > And I think that's the best place for it. We _could_ bloat up the > > kernel code by adding the ability flash -- but how many users is that > > going to serve, that are not already served by existing programs? So, I > > disagree with getting this stuff into the kernel at all. > > I see your point, but OTOH that it's under a separate config option and > it's actually a _tiny_ amount of code. > > And we all know that hardware drivers don't live in userspace. ATM all users are using an existing userspace tools, so this would be a CONFIG_EEPRO100_ERIC_BIEDERMAN option. No thanks :) Jeff