[PATCH 07/11] fsmc/nand: Provide contiguous buffers to dma

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Brian Norris
<computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would prefer not building a solution that hopes kmalloc() can get a
> large contiguous buffer (remember, eraseblock sizes come as large as
> 2MB these days). A real solution like CMA or scatter-gather seems like
> a better idea.

+1 on that, and as I think I illustrated the MMC subsystem is using
the block layer helpers to form scatter-gather lists for it's requests.
I don't see why the MTD subsystem need to be very different?

Yours,
Linus Walleij