Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754599AbYH0HRl (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:17:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752939AbYH0HRe (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:17:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:45810 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752927AbYH0HRd (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:17:33 -0400 Message-ID: <48B4FD5E.8000103@yandex.ru> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:08:14 +0300 From: Artem Bityutskiy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ricard Wanderlof CC: David Woodhouse , 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 References: <000201c9080d$0bce0d20$6b01a8c0@mvista.com> <1219818923.7107.106.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Aug 2008 07:11:19.0743 (UTC) FILETIME=[1AB864F0:01C90814] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 19 Ricard Wanderlof wrote: >> 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. On the other hand we'll stay with half-solutions forever if we allow them. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- 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/