Re: [RFC] MTD driver for MMC cards

Matthieu CASTET
2006-12-31T17:40:29Z

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:32:18 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:

> Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> I'm a complete MTD noob, but what uses does the MTD layer have besides
> JFFS2. If it's none, than this advantage isn't that big of a deal.
>
AFAIK MTD is for device where erase is need to managed in "software" :
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/general.html

For SD card, doesn't a microcontroller on the card hide this, and make the
sd card acts like a normal block device (no need to erase a block before
writing it)?