From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16njt4-0005ZJ-00 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:28:34 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <200203201026.g2KAQH801788@thomas.tec.autronix.de> References: <200203201026.g2KAQH801788@thomas.tec.autronix.de> To: gleixner@autronix.de Cc: Paul , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:39:46 +0000 Message-ID: <9616.1016645986@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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