[PATCH/RFC] MTD: Striping layer core

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 31 March 2006 16:11:12 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:59 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > Whether the flash can mark things obsolete is a flash feature.  At
> > least this is based on a flash feature.  So maybe we should rename it
> > to MTD_CAN_FLIP_SINGLE_BITS or similar and then have
> 
> This is better then "can mark obsolete". At lease this does not depend
> on application. But I still think that the number of features like is
> unpredictable and large. If the number of bits in mtd->flags is not
> enough, will you introduce mtd->flags1? This is not very generic
> approach.

I believe the number of sane features is not very high.  Right now,
jffs2 is de-facto the only thing to worry about.  And last time I
checked (two weeks ago), there were not many different decisions based
on flash type.

It was just notable that decisions were based on (type==THIS ||
(type==that && flags==bla) || (type==whatnot).  And I'd like to get
rid of such code.

If you send a new filesystem to be merged and that one requires 52
sane new features, you may be right.

Jörn

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