From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933637AbXCEVjA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:39:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933644AbXCEVjA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:39:00 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4532 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933637AbXCEViE (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:38:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 04:12:53 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Richard Purdie Cc: Nick Piggin , Hugh Dickins , kernel list , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] mtd: Add a 'block unused' ioctl call to provide hints to block drivers Message-ID: <20020101041253.GC4106@ucw.cz> References: <1172850894.11149.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1172850894.11149.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Knowing that the data in a given block is now unused is a useful > feature that some block drivers can take advantage of, especially > when dealing with devices like flash. > > This adds an ioctl which allows such hints to be passed to the Maybe Documentation/ piece would be nice if this can be called from userspace.... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html