[PATCH] [MTD] BLOCK_RO: Readonly Block Device Layer Over MTD

[Konstantin Baydarov]

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:15 +0300, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> 
>>B/c it introduces new fields in generic mtd structures which are already 
>>overcomplicated, and modifies a lot of generic code. I'd expect that 
>>with this patch applied stuff like mtdcore.c and mtdpart.c becomes 
>>exposed to possible licensing issues which is definitely not what we aim ;-)
> 
> 
> I am talking about something like this:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2004-May/009683.html
> 
> I do not see it introducing any new field.
> 

I realized it exactly the same way on top of readoly block device. 
Patch, you talking about, definitely needs #ifdef-s and it waste kernel 
RAM statically allocating block_map, block_top, block_scantop 
MAX_MTD_DEVICES times :-).