From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48B4FD5E.8000103@yandex.ru> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:08:14 +0300 From: Artem Bityutskiy MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ricard Wanderlof Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices References: <000201c9080d$0bce0d20$6b01a8c0@mvista.com> <1219818923.7107.106.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org" , 'Bruce Leonard' , "Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Tim Anderson , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , 'Andrew Morton' , David Woodhouse List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Ricard Wanderlof wrote: >> I'm not sure I'd say I _vetoed_ new ioctls, but I certainly expressed a >> desire to do all the information stuff through sysfs. We would need a >> new MEMERASE64 ioctl though. > > If the (lack of) sysfs stuff is standing between us and a nice >4GiB mtd > I for one would think that a set of 64-bit ioctls would be a reasonable > halfway house. On the other hand we'll stay with half-solutions forever if we allow them. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)