[PATCH] libmtd: fix mtd_write() issues for large data-only writes

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 20:35 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> ioctl(MEMWRITE) is implemented with memdup_user(), and so it allocates
> kernel memory in contiguous regions. This limits its usefulness for large
> amounts of data, since contiguous kernel memory can become scarce. I have
> experienced "out of memory" problems with ubiformat, for instance, which
> writes in eraseblock-sized regions:

Pushed this one and the other 3 patches to mtd-utils.git, thanks a lot!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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