[PATCHv4] mtd-utils: use new 64-bit ioctls + sysfs to support >4GiB devices

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue May 11 04:43:09 EDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:28 +0300, saeed bishara wrote:
> hi,
>    This patch is needed when using >4GiB nand partitions, any idea why
> it has not been merged yet?
> 
> saeed
> 
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Kevin Cernekee <kpc.mtd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Use the new kernel ioctls to erase/lock/unlock/readoob/writeoob >4GiB
> > flash devices.
> >
> > Use the new sysfs interface to query device info.
> >
> > Dependencies:
> >
> > "4GiB" extended ioctls:
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-April/025122.html
> >
> > Driver model updates 1/2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/3/477
> >
> > Optional: Driver model updates 2/2:
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-March/025011.html
> >

Dunno, I did not follow these. Kevin, would you re-send your patches
please?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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