[PATCH 1/4] mtd: add new ioctl structures to be used for repartitioning

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 19 July 2010, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 20:22 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Yes, that's generally true. It would be nice if the BLKPG ioctl
> > definition could be reused for this. It is more complicated
> > than it should be, but not more than this suggestion, and
> > it's an existing ioctl.
> 
> Thanks for reply.
> 
> MTD devices do not support BLKPG, do you mean we should you the same
> data-structures and names as block devices?

Yes. I'm not sure if it should also be possible to actually repartition
the flash using the mtdblock driver, but what I meant was to implement
the BLKPG API in the mtdchar driver, with slightly adapted semantics.

	Arnd