Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762149AbXEPMHv (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 08:07:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760040AbXEPMHj (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 08:07:39 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48155 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759498AbXEPMHh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 08:07:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three From: David Woodhouse To: Andrew Morton Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan , Thomas Gleixner , Jan Engelhardt , Evgeniy Polyakov , Pekka Enberg , Greg KH , Ingo Oeser In-Reply-To: <20070515133759.9ee434a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <20070515133759.9ee434a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:07:18 +0800 Message-Id: <1179317240.2859.222.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 26 On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > But it includes an MTD header file. > > Can this code be tested by people who don't have MTD hardware? We used to > ahve a fake-mtd-on-a-blockdev thing, whcih was in a state of some > disrepair. Maybe it got repaired. Or removed. I can't immediately locate > it... There's block2mtd, as Jörn pointed out. There's also 'nandsim' and 'mtdram', which will vmalloc some space and use that to emulate NAND or NOR flash, respectively. > It's strange and a bit regrettable that an fs would have dependency on MTD, > really. Why? Other file systems has dependencies on BLOCK or on NET. It seems entirely normal to me. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/