Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753589AbYH0GVZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:21:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752286AbYH0GVQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:21:16 -0400 Received: from homer.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:12865 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752234AbYH0GVQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:21:16 -0400 From: "Tim Anderson" To: Cc: , "'Andrew Morton'" , , "'David Woodhouse'" , , , "'Bruce Leonard'" Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:20:46 -0700 Message-ID: <000201c9080d$0bce0d20$6b01a8c0@mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <1219817017.18027.149.camel@sauron> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 Thread-Index: AckIC9NVX3AqwKW3R7i6fFPHbqD8FwAAHnlA Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 42 Artem, I see your point. Ioctls are going away after all. So we should have something like: /sys/class/mtd/mtd0/ Or just under device or platform? > -----Original Message----- > From: Artem Bityutskiy [mailto:dedekind@infradead.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:04 PM > To: Tim Anderson > Cc: Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com; 'Andrew Morton'; > linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org; 'David Woodhouse'; > linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > 'Bruce Leonard' > Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices > > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:01 -0700, Tim Anderson wrote: > > I have been experimenting with this. I think there is at > least 3 maybe 4 > > IOCTLS that are going to need to have a LARGE mode. The 2 > most obvious are > > MEMGETINFO and MEMERASE. > > dwmw2 vetoed any MEMGETINFO ioctl changes, or new similar > ioctls, and it > kind of make sense, because we should use sysfs instead. But this, in > turn, means implementing sysfs support for MTD, because MTD is not > LinuxDeviceModel-enabled at the moment. > > -- > Best regards, > Artem Bityutskiy (???????? ?????) > -- 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/