[PATCH 1/5] mtd: Update internal API to support 64-bit device size

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:51:46PM +0100, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:28:48PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 02:39:49PM +0300, Dmitry Lavnikevich wrote:
> > > MTD internal API presently uses 32-bit values to represent device
> > > size. This patch updates them to 64-bits but leaves the external API
> > > unchanged.
> > > 
> > > In general, changing from 32-bit to 64-bit values cause little
> > > or no changes to the majority of the code with the following
> > > exceptions:
> > >   - printk message formats;
> > >   - division and modulus of 64-bit values (mtd_div_by_wb,
> > >     mtd_div_by_eb may be used in some of such cases).
> > > 
> > > Was tested on phyFLEX i.MX6.
> > >
> > 
> > changed master_offset to 64bit aswell and applied this series.
> > 
> ok, cool!
> 
> But.. damn it there is still a ugly comment in lib/libmtd.c:
> 
> "NOTE: No support for 64 bit sizes yet!"

Maybe this should be removed by somebody who has tested this code with
devices > 4GB. I don't have the hardware for this.

Sascha

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