[PATCH][MTD] mtdpart.c: allow other drivers to get physical address of partition

[Carsten Otte]

Jared Hulbert wrote:
> Hmmm, we'd definitely benefit from having a hook in idle to trigger
> the erase to resume.  Having hooks for entry into kernel space sounds
> interesting, but if you leave it too quickly and suspend the erase you
> don't make forward progress.  However, I'm not sure how you'd
> determine whether a given process can continue without suspending the
> erase.

*shrug*. I'd rather want to go a path without hooks, like the one 
David's suggesting. Hooks are known to be highly flammable on lkml.