[PATCH v2 0/2] Deprecate ECCGETLAYOUT

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:06 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> The following two patches are implementations of two different
> strategies to deprecate the ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT. This ioctl is not
> very useful and imposes restrictions on expanding the corresponding
> kernel struct nand_ecclayout. Either patch will leave functionality
> intact but allow the kernel-space layouts to expand in the future.
> 
> Strategy 1: Create new struct nand_ecclayout_l and convert all kernel
>   code to use this struct.
> Strategy 2: Rename old struct nand_ecclayout_user and modify
>   nand_ecclayout to be used in the kernel only.

I think nand_ecclayout_l is silly name. Strategy 2 looks nicer, let's
stick to that one.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)