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Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 07:33 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
>   
>> Because we've consistently told people not to do that.
>>     
>
> OK, but why ?
>
>   
B/c it introduces new fields in generic mtd structures which are already 
overcomplicated, and modifies a lot of generic code. I'd expect that 
with this patch applied stuff like mtdcore.c and mtdpart.c becomes 
exposed to possible licensing issues which is definitely not what we aim ;-)

Vitaly