Re: [PATCH 06/25] mtd: move ioctl32 code to mtdchar.c

Thomas Gleixner
2005-11-08T18:54:04Z

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 19:33 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:

> Can you name a few examples, where mtdchar.c makes sense? I've found
> it to be quite useless.

How do you access FLASH specific functionality otherwise ?

case MEMGETINFO:
....
case OTPLOCK:

It may be useless for you, but I doubt that you represent the majority
of the MTD user base. Using a RAM simulator is a bit different to the
usage of _real_ FLASH.

Look into mtd/utils and figure yourself why it _is_ useful.

The code _is_ ugly and ioctls are out of fashion, but your "remove it"
request is just silly as long as you dont provide a reasonable
alternative access to those bits.

tglx