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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: part: Create the master device node when partitioned
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 01:23:17PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 01:00:35PM -0700, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Brian Norris
> > <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I kinda like this strategy. If users were flexible enough, I'd like to
> > > be able to make this the default eventually. But that probably won't
> > > happen, so we may have to live with this Kconfig forever, in that case.
> > 
> > :( It'd also be nice if we could name things like mtda, mtda0, mtda1,
> > etc like SCSI. Alas!
> 
> Yeah...

BTW, mtda{,0,1,...} is probably a little ambitious, but we might be able
to get by with phasing in your new Kconfig option as default after a few
releases. Then we could probably gauge whether we can kill the old
behavior completely.

Brian