running out of space dd'ing JFFS2 image to /dev/mtdblock/0
Josh Boyer
jdub at us.ibm.com
Mon Jan 31 19:43:08 EST 2005
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 00:19 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:39 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > This allows different people with different taste to specify numbers
> > in various simple formats. If you think you can improve on this,
> > please send me a patch.
>
> It is wrong to interpret 'k' 'M' and 'G' as anything other than 10^3,
> 10^6 or 10^9 respectively. If you have to do it to support a legacy
> interface like slram, that's vaguely acceptable. No more, though.
>
Why is slram still around? Isn't phram supposed to replace it? I think
once a better replacement driver has been written, the old one should be
marked deprecated and eventually removed.
josh
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