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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:23:01 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: mtdblock read only device broken?
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:13:28PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I'm not entirely convinced the block device drivers work in 2.5 at the
> moment. I was holding off on fixing them up, to let the 2.5 code
> actually settle down, and to see if those who changed the core code
> would fix up the drivers accordingly. My merge from Linus' tree recently
> was more focussed on things which were relevant for a merge to 2.4,
> rather than merging back to Linus -- that's my next task.

mtdblock / mtdblock_ro should be fine; I haven't had problems with them
here in 2.5.60.  Do you have any specific concerns about these two?

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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