[PATCH 28/74] Incrementing the ecc_pos array to contain 128 char

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 05:49:37 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 23:33 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> 
> I'm curious how many applications actually need to have the ecclayout.
> nandwrite doesn't actually use it, just oobinfo. 

That is good point - I think we should not accept new ioctl before the
submitter shows us how and for what he will use it.

My point is simple - OOB layout should be transparent to users-space.
Messing with this is error-prone.

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Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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