From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: gleixner@autronix.de
Cc: Paul <paul@oz.net>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:39:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9616.1016645986@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203201026.g2KAQH801788@thomas.tec.autronix.de>
gleixner@autronix.de said:
> That's one side of the problem. The other is, that you can use only
> JFFS2 on this devices at the moment . There is no other filesystem,
> which handles the nand stuff correct. If you want to use the
> original SMC DOS-FAT filesystem, which is used by MP3-Players,
> Digicams etc., you have to hack a new filesystem driver.
SmartMedia is just another translation layer which pretends to be a block
device (cf. previous rants). You normally put FAT on that block device,
just as you do with NFTL and FTL - but you don't have to.
At least two people have expressed interest in writing that translation
layer code. I haven't seen any of it yet.
--
dwmw2
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2002-03-20 10:26 ` Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested Thomas Gleixner
2002-03-20 17:39 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-03-20 19:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
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