[PATCH/RFC] MTD: Striping layer core

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:

> Jörn Engel wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Whatever is the de-facto user, I orient to common principles. One of them is
> modularization. JFFS2 and MTD are a distinc and separate thngs. And having
> anything JFFS2-specific in MTD is insane in my humble oppinion, sorry. And
> this does not depend on what is de-facto.

You are right here.  This is why MTD drivers should export _flash_ 
features rather than filesystem requirements.  And it is up to 
filesystem code to cope with the (lack of) certain flash features not 
the other way around.


Nicolas