[PATCH/RFC] MTD: Striping layer core

[Artem B. Bityutskiy]

Jörn Engel wrote:
> The current mess that makes up mtd->type and mtd->flags needs to be
> sanitized anyway.  Instead of being MTD_NAND, MTD_NOR or MTD_STRIPED,
> it should tell the user _how_ to treat the device, not _what_ it is.
> Basically, whereever a user (jffs2 basically) has
> 	if (mtd->type == MTD_FOO)
> 		setup_bar;
> it should actually do
> 	if (mtd->flags == MTD_NEEDS_BAR)
> 		setup_bar;
> 
> Quite likely there won't be many flags left after the cleanup is done.
> Most of them should simple be erase_size and write_size (page_size or
> ecc_size currently), not flags.

No, mtd->type has to tell you the type of the MTD device. Ideally, this 
has to me the only flash-specific field in the mtd_info structure. And 
if users want to do some flash specific things, they have to look at 
mtd->type, realize what is the subsystem which handles this flash, and 
start working with this subsystem. For striping, this is the striping 
subsystem. I don't know what for mtd->flags, probably this hast to go at 
all.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.