Re: [PATCH 6/9] mtd: Add a 'block unused' ioctl call to provide hints to block drivers

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Mar 05 2007 - 16:39:32 EST


Hi!

> Knowing that the data in a given block is now unused is a useful
> feature that some block drivers can take advantage of, especially
> when dealing with devices like flash.
>
> This adds an ioctl which allows such hints to be passed to the

Maybe Documentation/ piece would be nice if this can be called from
userspace....

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