mtd: update description on sm_ftl

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Fri Aug 6 04:59:01 EDT 2010


Gitweb:     http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6f92355c6e7a680c8f61f3ae30e870d05843b98f
Commit:     6f92355c6e7a680c8f61f3ae30e870d05843b98f
Parent:     dba76c033f1b88b6eb0fa697b824f954b11f8a97
Author:     Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky at gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jul 28 18:53:17 2010 +0300
Committer:  David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
CommitDate: Fri Aug 6 09:21:40 2010 +0100

    mtd: update description on sm_ftl
    
    I think that scary description can go now...
    
    Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky at gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/Kconfig |   11 +++++++----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
index 71eda03..1e2cbf5 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
@@ -311,11 +311,14 @@ config SM_FTL
 	select MTD_BLKDEVS
 	select MTD_NAND_ECC
 	help
-	  This enables new and very EXPERMENTAL support for SmartMedia/xD
+	  This enables EXPERIMENTAL R/W support for SmartMedia/xD
 	  FTL (Flash translation layer).
-	  Write support isn't yet well tested, therefore this code IS likely to
-	  eat your card, so please don't use it together with valuable data.
-	  Use readonly driver (CONFIG_SSFDC) instead.
+	  Write support is only lightly tested, therefore this driver
+	  isn't recommended to use with valuable data (anyway if you have
+	  valuable data, do backups regardless of software/hardware you
+	  use, because you never know what will eat your data...)
+	  If you only need R/O access, you can use older R/O driver
+	  (CONFIG_SSFDC)
 
 config MTD_OOPS
 	tristate "Log panic/oops to an MTD buffer"



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