Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754746AbYH0JCX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:02:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753202AbYH0JCP (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:02:15 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:34523 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753127AbYH0JCP (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:02:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices From: David Woodhouse To: Alan Cox Cc: Tim Anderson , dedekind@infradead.org, Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com, "'Andrew Morton'" , linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "'Bruce Leonard'" In-Reply-To: <20080827093920.1bdb44c2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1219817017.18027.149.camel@sauron> <000201c9080d$0bce0d20$6b01a8c0@mvista.com> <20080827093920.1bdb44c2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:01:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1219827692.7107.170.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1218 Lines: 31 On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:20:46 -0700 > "Tim Anderson" wrote: > > > Artem, > > > > I see your point. Ioctls are going away after all. > > I don't know where that stupid story keeps coming from. Ioctl is alive > and well and there are more not less of them. There are lots of things > you *cannot* do with sysfs, including synchronization and handling > many kinds of changes to objects that can appear and disappear. Ditto > there are problems with getting a consistent snapshot via sysfs because > you can't atomically read multiple fields. > > So please stop this 'ioctls are going away' stuff, its bunkum. True, and we'll definitely need a new MEMERASE64 ioctl. But for the _informational_ parts, those can happily be done through sysfs. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation -- 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/