From: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
To: "ext Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com" <Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd->size revisited
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:53:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FF0ADA.7010101@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF1E779C97.22C47CCA-ON88257426.007A4C73-88257426.007C6F5B@selinc.com>
Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com wrote:
> This could end up going a long way. Plus, I know there are a couple of
> drivers that make use of this field and I expect that if I make this
> change, I'll be responsible for makeing the changes to the drivers.
> However, I can't test those changes since I don't have the HW. How is
> that going to be received by the community and the maintainers of those
> drivers?
I would suggest making 64-bit size support a config option and not touching
any code you don't have to for your device.
This reduces the amount of work you have to do and leaves 32-bit people
unaffected.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 22:39 mtd->size revisited Bruce_Leonard
2008-04-09 23:07 ` Vernon Sauder
2008-04-09 23:27 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-10 4:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-10 20:55 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-04-11 6:53 ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
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