From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 143E0I-0007bY-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:03:14 +0000 Received: from cerebus-ext.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.252] helo=passion.cygnus) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 143E0H-0007bS-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:03:13 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: mark.langsdorf@amd.com, mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: Odd behavior of JFFS with AMD chips - kernel panic! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:03:04 +0000 Message-ID: <5734.976006984@redhat.com> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: nico@cam.org said: > David --> This is really really misleading and non-intuitive. Is > there a good reason to have a separate device node only for read-only > access? No good reason. I inherited the device nodes from a previous driver - as they're already been registered, it made sense at the time to use them as they were. I'm reluctant to change them now unless we register a new major number for them, to prevent confusion. Changing them but keeping the same major# would even bite the people who _did_ bother to read the documentation and/or run the provided MAKEDEV script. :) -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org