From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wy0-f177.google.com ([74.125.82.177]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1P5ygm-0005Z5-T9 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:36:09 +0000 Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so134933wyg.36 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Peter Korsgaard From: Peter Korsgaard To: Karl Beldan Subject: Re: [RFC] do_mounts: Allow mtd names for non-flash block filesystems References: <1286398974-12114-1-git-send-email-karl.beldan@gmail.com> <1286825063.1742.13.camel@brekeke> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:35:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Karl Beldan's message of "Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:16:40 +0200") Message-ID: <87zkui2xdf.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse , dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >>>>> "Karl" == Karl Beldan writes: Hi, >> But how about teaching squashfs to understand mtdX and mtd:name syntax >> instead? Karl> I would not do that, squashfs and co just ask for a block device, Karl> putting mtdx syntax awareness in each of them just does not seem Karl> a good fit to me. FYI, patches for direct mtd access in squashfs (E.G. for systems not needing the block layer at all) were posted a while ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/962226/focus=968074 -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard