[PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Wed Aug 27 02:49:32 EDT 2008


On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 23:20 -0700, Tim Anderson wrote:
>> I see your point. Ioctls are going away after all.
>>
>> So we should have something like:
>> /sys/class/mtd/mtd0/
>>
>> Or just under device or platform?
>
> Tim, please stop top-posting.
>
> I'm not sure I'd say I _vetoed_ new ioctls, but I certainly expressed a
> desire to do all the information stuff through sysfs. We would need a
> new MEMERASE64 ioctl though.

If the (lack of) sysfs stuff is standing between us and a nice >4GiB mtd I 
for one would think that a set of 64-bit ioctls would be a reasonable 
halfway house.

/Ricard
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