[RFC] do_mounts: Allow mtd names for non-flash block filesystems

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Beldan <karl.beldan at gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> But how about teaching squashfs to understand mtdX and mtd:name syntax
 >> instead?

 Karl> I would not do that, squashfs and co just ask for a block device,
 Karl> putting mtdx syntax awareness in each of them just does not seem
 Karl> a good fit to me.

FYI, patches for direct mtd access in squashfs (E.G. for systems not
needing the block layer at all) were posted a while ago:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/962226/focus=968074

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard