Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:25 +0200, JÃrn 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" :-)

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ ÐÑÑÑÐ)

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