mtd_info->size again (lengthy)

[Jörn Engel]

On Tue, 10 June 2008 11:56:48 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> I just don't see any advantage to assuming "nobody will ever use 4GiB
> erase blocks", when changing the API with larger sizes.

*shrug*

I use u64 for the number of eraseblocks because it doesn't take a lot of
imagination to see u32 overflow before I retire.  It didn't take a lot
of imagination to see the u32 size problem coming either.  Relying on "a
good reason that I haven't thought of" is a bit of a stretch.

Let me put it this way: if you spend the time and create all the
patches, you can use u128 for all I care.

> I have a particularly crappy one where erase blocks the CPU if the CPU
> reads from the chip during the erase - so the cfi_cmdset_0002.c file
> needs a patch to avoid polling the status register for this board.
> This is topic for another post, though.

Nothing can prevent bad drivers.  At least they are easy to fix.

Jörn

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