Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754866Ab0HXKnf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:43:35 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:33797 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754069Ab0HXKne (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:43:34 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=fferDmEmtQPvgTmPQeAbyHCPHgTiZIuMcLDj0mxhEPWiezvsCgKpcoqE2PdHuQtORq yk3OV4kUh5hI3DCDiSP7/17YrxE3RATUvbyMwCsbHiurtq4nXgYK9wGsk5zZDFsb/PFf AUmO9AO/dr9tqRsCZf97XKm7OuhgXYSDxW7qU= Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Deprecate ECCGETLAYOUT From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com To: Brian Norris Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel , David Woodhouse , Sneha Narnakaje In-Reply-To: <1282154806-9420-1-git-send-email-norris@broadcom.com> References: <4C5CA4A1.1040000@broadcom.com> <1282154806-9420-1-git-send-email-norris@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:42:04 +0300 Message-ID: <1282646524.24044.161.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 (2.30.2-4.fc13) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1016 Lines: 24 On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:06 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > The following two patches are implementations of two different > strategies to deprecate the ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT. This ioctl is not > very useful and imposes restrictions on expanding the corresponding > kernel struct nand_ecclayout. Either patch will leave functionality > intact but allow the kernel-space layouts to expand in the future. > > Strategy 1: Create new struct nand_ecclayout_l and convert all kernel > code to use this struct. > Strategy 2: Rename old struct nand_ecclayout_user and modify > nand_ecclayout to be used in the kernel only. I think nand_ecclayout_l is silly name. Strategy 2 looks nicer, let's stick to that one. -- 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/