MTD ABI

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jul 17 07:16:14 EDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:05:35AM +0000, MikeW wrote:
> Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 18:41 +0530, Ranga Raju B wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >     This question is for curiosity sake. What is MTD ABI? What is the 
> > > expansion of ABI and what is it's significance in MTD. Could anyone give 
> > > me a pointer to this?
> > 
> > ABI stands for 'application binary interface'.  MTD doesn't really have
> > an ABI...  It does have an API, or application programming interface,
> > which can be found on the MTD website.
> > 
> > josh
> 
> and can also be found summarised in <mtd/mtd-user.h> !!

Well, for user<->kernel interaction, yes.  I was referring to the in-kernel
used for new drivers, etc.

josh



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