[PATCH,RFC] [MTD] replace MTD_NORFLASH with MTD_GENERIC_TYPE

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Tue May 30 12:42:05 EDT 2006


On Tue, 30 May 2006, Jörn Engel wrote:

> Or, more realistically, in something like the recent situation, where
> each one of those cases had its own copy of special code because
> people don't realize that their type is no different from another
> long-merged type.  Note that Nico didn't notice and copied the ECC_NOR
> code almost verbatim.  Considering that he is a solid developer
> otherwise, what would an average or below-average hacker come up with?

Well, given I'm not really intimate with the JFFS2 code I'm most 
probably in the below-average category here.


Nicolas


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