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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: trimarchimichael@yahoo.it, jwboyer@gmail.com,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] jffs2 summary allocation: don't use vmalloc()
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:21:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807310121.22219.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217489583.3454.36.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

On Thursday 31 July 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Yes. We're planning to change the API so it looks a lot more like the
> block layer, and a lot less like the one we inherited from PCMCIA in the
> 1990s.

Yeah, there are still a few "old" driver structures lingering.  And
I expect the Linux community understands a LOT more about MTD than
it did way back in the day ... :)


> One of the design considerations we've spoken about has been the 
> fact that we want to make DMA work properly. 

Glad to hear that.  But am I right in reading between the lines that
this isn't "soon"?  So that the issue addressed by $SUBJECT won't be
able to rely on that as its fix.

- Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30 19:34 [patch 02/13] jffs2 summary allocation: don't use vmalloc() akpm
2008-07-30 22:39 ` David Brownell
2008-07-30 22:46   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-31  5:10     ` David Brownell
2008-07-31  5:37       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-31  6:57         ` David Brownell
2008-07-31  8:03           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-31  5:15   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-31  6:56     ` David Brownell
2008-07-31  8:00       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-31  8:48         ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31  9:09           ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31  7:33   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31  8:21     ` David Brownell [this message]

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