[PATCH 4/4] MTD: drivers return max_bitflips, mtd returns -EUCLEAN

Mike Dunn mikedunn at newsguy.com
Fri Apr 13 14:18:03 EDT 2012


Sorry Shmulik, I didn't get your post again.  (Why?? I get a blizzard of emails
from various lists, but seem to lose the important ones!)

On 04/13/2012 08:54 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 11:48 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
>> Anyway, looking on it in a broader perspective, can you please state
>> use-case examples where one might set different thresholds for
>> different
>> partitions of same device?
>> I mean, do we really need that granularity?
> 
> Current MTD partitions support is very simple and makes it difficult to
> distinguished between partitions and not partitions.

Yes, the way the mtd code is structured, I think going through the partitions is
the correct way for the sake of cleanliness alone.

BTW, I haven't forgotten this.  I hope to have patches ready in a couple days.

Thanks,
Mike



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