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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 21:56, Stanley.Miao wrote:
>   
>> During some BSP development process, I found some tools in mtd-utils
>> contain legacy interfaces and it is not suitable with the current linux
>> kernel. I post my patches here in case somebody else need them.
>>     
>
> these are good, but i think people might want to keep support for
> older kernels around.  so you'd have the code try the newer ioctls
> first and if those fail, fall back to the old ones.
> -mike
>
>   
Yeah, we should keep it compatible ASAP. But in the conflict occasion, I 
think, the
new kernel should get the higher priorities than the older kernel. The 
people who
use the old kernels can use the old version mtd-utils(not very old, 
1.3.1 or earlier).

Stanley.