Raw character access to mtd device

[Van Beveren, David]

At the following MTD documentation page:

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/general.html

There is a reference to a planned user agent for raw character access of
mtd partitions. 

Should I be able to read and write to my (NOR flash) /dev/mtdc1 given it
is correctly aligned on an erase sector boundary? Can I treat this
device the same way I would treat a file with respect to simple
open/lseek/read/write/close system calls?

Or, do I need a user module of some kind? If so, guidance on where to
look would be appreciated. 

Thanks,

David
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