Re: XD/smartmedia - how to implement it right?

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

On Sat, 21 November 2009 02:25:44 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 
> This thread is meant to continue discussion about XD/smartmedia support
> in linux.
> 
> I CC'd few peoples that participated in original discussion.
> 
> Alex Dubov attempted to write a driver for jmicron device (I have it
> btw), but this was rejected due to code duplication.
> 
> I successfully reverse engineered (in my free time) the XD card reader
> found on my laptop (ricoh based one)
> 
> I would like to know how you think to implement the subsystem support
> right.
> 
> I would go with mmc subsystem + FTL, but according to original thread,
> there are numerous problems with this approach.
> 
> Any advice is appreciated.

A novel approach might be to just send the code as a patch.  Last time
around noone seemed to have had a real look.

The "mtd uses blocking calls" argument I can help with.  For some other
project I've added non-blocking calls to mtd[1].

Biggest problems I see are a) the userspace interface and b) allowing
both raw flash access through MTD and block device access with an FTL.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-November/028065.html

Jörn

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