From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp120.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.93]) by bombadil.infradead.org with smtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KOTPZ-0001Ay-1W for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:21:25 +0000 From: David Brownell To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] jffs2 summary allocation: don't use vmalloc() Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:21:22 -0700 References: <200807301934.m6UJYvtA012276@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20080730223924.3C51136129C@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> <1217489583.3454.36.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1217489583.3454.36.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807310121.22219.david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: trimarchimichael@yahoo.it, jwboyer@gmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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