From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 178apr-0004vy-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 07:03:27 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Paul Cc: Studying MTD , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: FAT for NAND Flash Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:03:23 +0100 Message-ID: <32431.1021615403@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: paul@oz.net said: > Perhaps I used the wrong terminology when I said "FAT12 translation", > but doesn't the firmware on a USB SmartMedia reader have to be able to > parse the SSFDC Physical Format Specification, such as the CIS (Card > Information Structure)? This is the part that seems to be missing in > sddr09.c, and the upper level stuff (e.g. fs/fat/inode.c) only handles > pure FAT12. In that case, sddr09.c isn't as useful to us as > previously suggested. OK, I thought there was more knowledge about the SmartMedia translation layer in the driver than that -- after all, if they were going to do it in firmware they could have just presented it as a standard USB-storage device and not required a special driver. Have you also looked at the updated driver at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/aeb/ -- dwmw2