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Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
>> Still it's unclear why not to provide a configurable extension to 
>> mtdconcat rather than create a new layer.
>>     
>
> Well, it is actually quite clear. Yes, in a way this may be considered
> as a concatenation, but this is not the purpose of the striping layer.
> If you want to concatenate, you don't need all its complexities.
>
> I think that concatenation has to stay concatenation - simple and
> straight-forward. It has to do its small task and do it well.  No need
> to jam tons of the striping code to the tiny'n'shiny concatenation
> module.
>
>   
Yep, probably you both are right.

Vitaly