From: "Brian J. Fox" <bfox@ua.com>
To: rob@sysgo.de
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Subject: Re: MTD concat layer
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 06:56:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16c6Gf-0000m9-00@speedy.datawave.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0202161157380.17237-100000@dagobert.svc.sysgo.de> (message from Robert Kaiser on Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:03:27 +0100 (MET))
From: Robert Kaiser <rob@sysgo.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:03:27 +0100 (MET)
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> rob@sysgo.de said:
> > OK, just to be clear about this: If my erase function is asked to
> > erase -say- 1.5 blocks, what should it do:
>
> -EINVAL.
OK, but is the function allowed to erase blocks up to the point
where it hits the partial block request ? That would make it simpler,
especially in the presence of variable block sizes.
I was lurking, but I guess I have to post an opinion on this.
*No*, you should *not* erase some blocks and return an error.
Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-16 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-12 18:40 MTD concat layer Robert Kaiser
2002-02-13 7:56 ` Suspend Erase bug in cfi_cmdset0001.c Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-14 8:17 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-13 11:00 ` MTD concat layer Joakim Tjernlund
2002-02-13 11:04 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-13 11:34 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-13 11:37 ` Robert Schwebel
2002-02-13 13:33 ` Daniel Engström
2002-02-13 14:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-02-15 15:58 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-15 17:43 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-15 18:02 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-15 18:40 ` Jörn Engel
2002-02-16 10:33 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-16 10:43 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-16 10:43 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-16 11:03 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-16 11:08 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-16 14:56 ` Brian J. Fox [this message]
2002-02-17 10:36 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-17 19:05 ` Brian J. Fox
2002-02-18 8:48 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-18 9:05 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-18 15:53 ` Brian J. Fox
2002-02-18 17:01 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-18 17:02 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-18 15:46 ` Brian J. Fox
2002-02-20 14:28 ` Jonas Holmberg
2002-02-20 15:35 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-02-21 14:51 ` Jonas Holmberg
2002-02-26 11:32 ` Robert Kaiser
2002-03-06 13:37 ` Jonas Holmberg
2002-03-06 16:02 ` Robert Kaiser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-14 11:14 Jonas Holmberg
2002-03-08 16:08 Robert Kaiser
2002-03-08 16:22 ` David Woodhouse
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