Re: [PATCH 4/6] libmtd: add helper funcs for getting fds, regioninfo, and locked info

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 02:56, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 09:50 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> We indeed have -m option in mtdutils which opens a device by its number.
>> But I think it was a mistake. Generally, MTD devices can have any name,
>> it is up to udev configuration. So I'd rather deprecate and would
>> require a list of device node names.
>
> Sorry, I was not clear. I wanted to say that supports -m and does
> hard-code the mtd device name. But this was a mistake because it gives a
> bad example, and adding more hard-coded names is bad.
>
> So I think this option can be deprecated and removed, and we should only
> accept full device node names.

i only added this because mtdinfo has the -m option.  i have no
problem with punting that and going back to requiring people to
specify the path to the device nodes.  i'm off now though, so i'll get
to it tomorrow.
-mike