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From: MikeW <mw_phil@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: MTD ABI
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:05:35 +0000 (UTC)
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Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> 
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 18:41 +0530, Ranga Raju B wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     This question is for curiosity sake. What is MTD ABI? What is the 
> > expansion of ABI and what is it's significance in MTD. Could anyone give 
> > me a pointer to this?
> 
> ABI stands for 'application binary interface'.  MTD doesn't really have
> an ABI...  It does have an API, or application programming interface,
> which can be found on the MTD website.
> 
> josh

and can also be found summarised in <mtd/mtd-user.h> !!

Regards,
MikeW