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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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  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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