Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S970185AbXFHQMH (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:12:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968169AbXFHQLv (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:11:51 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:2913 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966932AbXFHQLt (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:11:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fBOKwEx8ZnVJ7DiStnk0FIUvrN6kmn8sF4UELXeDEsUyjrx4TvMQiRi5Ug74rJK43+SdTRN3XSOM72i+mo/chONzPj3959tA7Rw0e8M7FEUCHTGA2Vml7BtXad4kKasbflFFisWohuRJbh2C2trFmYolD6Lof/oaX7/GoN9sH94= Message-ID: <6934efce0706080911y601a8377oad7b1251a95acd64@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:11:47 -0700 From: "Jared Hulbert" To: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Jared Hulbert" , carsteno@de.ibm.com, "Nick Piggin" , "Andrew Morton" , richard.griffiths@windriver.com, "Richard Griffiths" , Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP In-Reply-To: <20070608160929.GA3366@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070606162305.GA20600@infradead.org> <20070607193844.GB17144@infradead.org> <4669027E.3070406@de.ibm.com> <20070608072609.GA13115@infradead.org> <46690A39.3010402@de.ibm.com> <20070608075717.GA16927@infradead.org> <46690C58.7090304@de.ibm.com> <20070608080401.GA17684@infradead.org> <6934efce0706080905h253d9e3apd4168c5d14d305e5@mail.gmail.com> <20070608160929.GA3366@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 17 > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:05:32AM -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: > > Okay so we need some driver that opens/closes this ROM. This has been > > done from the dcss block device but that doesn't make sense for most > > embedded systems. The MTD allows for this with point(),unpoint(). > > That should work just fine. It does introduce the MTD as a dependancy > > which is unnecessary in many systems, but it will work now. > > The Linux solution to this problem would be to introduce an option for > mtd write support. That way the majority of the code doesn't heave to > be compiled for the read-only case but you still get a uniform interface. You mean make an MTD-light interface possible? - 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/