Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754285AbYH0Gzt (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:55:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751870AbYH0Gzm (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:55:42 -0400 Received: from miranda.se.axis.com ([193.13.178.8]:41903 "EHLO miranda.se.axis.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752796AbYH0Gzl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:55:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:49:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Ricard Wanderlof X-X-Sender: ricardw@lnxricardw.se.axis.com To: David Woodhouse cc: Tim Anderson , "linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org" , "'Bruce Leonard'" , "Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , "'Andrew Morton'" Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices In-Reply-To: <1219818923.7107.106.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <000201c9080d$0bce0d20$6b01a8c0@mvista.com> <1219818923.7107.106.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 31 On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:20 -0700, Tim Anderson wrote: >> 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? > > Tim, please stop top-posting. > > I'm not sure I'd say I _vetoed_ new ioctls, but I certainly expressed a > desire to do all the information stuff through sysfs. We would need a > new MEMERASE64 ioctl though. If the (lack of) sysfs stuff is standing between us and a nice >4GiB mtd I for one would think that a set of 64-bit ioctls would be a reasonable halfway house. /Ricard -- Ricard Wolf Wanderl?f ricardw(at)axis.com Axis Communications AB, Lund, Sweden www.axis.com Phone +46 46 272 2016 Fax +46 46 13 61 30 -- 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/