Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752963AbYH2GCY (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:02:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751221AbYH2GCQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:02:16 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:32855 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751203AbYH2GCO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:02:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org, "'Bruce Leonard'" , Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Anderson , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, "'Andrew Morton'" , Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <20080827152534.GB1371@logfs.org> References: <1219817017.18027.149.camel@sauron> <000201c9080d$0bce0d20$6b01a8c0@mvista.com> <20080827093920.1bdb44c2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1219827692.7107.170.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080827143416.GA1371@logfs.org> <1219848463.18027.166.camel@sauron> <20080827152534.GB1371@logfs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:48:07 +0300 Message-Id: <1219988887.4036.7.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-5.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Aug 2008 05:51:33.0903 (UTC) FILETIME=[4AF6A9F0:01C9099B] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1053 Lines: 24 On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:25 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > > I would like to make udev creating MTD devices, instead of creating them > > by hands. Adding MTD to LDM would anyway introduce corresponding sysfs > > files, right? This means we would have one more interface anyway. > > Could be useful, I don't mind you sending a patch. However, does this > means that MEMGETINFO64 or some other ioctl should not be done? Should > flash_erase open, read and close 8 seperate files instead of doing a > single ioctl? And should our support for large devices wait for the > sysfs support that has been talked about and not done for about two > years already? Up to dwmw2, but I do not mind if the answer to all the above questions is "yes" :-) -- Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) -- 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/