Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764131AbZCaXyW (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:54:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764364AbZCaXx6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:53:58 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.218.169]:52343 "EHLO mail-bw0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764188AbZCaXx5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:53:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200903311418.53772.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200903260042.42091.david-b@pacbell.net> <200903311418.53772.david-b@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 01:51:48 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.29 1/2] MTD: driver model updates From: Kay Sievers To: David Brownell , dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: Linux MTD , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1078 Lines: 25 On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 23:18, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 26 March 2009, David Brownell wrote: >> From: David Brownell >> >> Update driver model support in the MTD framework, so it fits >> better into the current udev-based hotplug framework: > > Hmm, no comments?  I had understood there was interest over on > the MTD side of things in exposing more information through > sysfs, to help avoid the need to add Even More Ioctls as part > of support for things like NAND chips with 4KB pages, or which > handle more than 4GBytes ... Please have a look at this. We got asked repeatedly to provide better hotplug/udev integration, and the patches, and having the parent device properly assigned, would solve some of the problems people run into currently. Thanks, Kay -- 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/