[PATCH/RFC] MTD: Striping layer core

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Jörn Engel wrote:

> On Fri, 31 March 2006 14:00:09 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 11:40 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > > On Fri, 31 March 2006 13:36:43 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Is this exported to userspace via mtdchar?
> > > 
> > I don't quite understand what is "this".
> > 
> > Ideally yes...
> 
> I take it that mtd->type is not exported to userspace yet.  Which is
> good, because imho it shouldn't be.  Flash should me a step towards a
> standard interface, something that hard disk have had for years.
> Knowing every little detail about every single flash chip bears more
> harm than good.

And for the record I'm completely with you here.


Nicolas