On Fri, 8 June 2007 17:15:26 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I wouldn't call it that. The interface should stay the same except that > write operations are not supported. In mtd_info you'd just have > point/unpoint and read/read_oob but no write operations and all the backing > code wouldn't be compiled in aswell.
Nitbit: Sooner or later the point/unpoint should get replaced by something with page granularity. Something also needs to keep lists of mapped pages and invalidate them whenever the device is written to. That could be done in the filesystem or device driver. I believe the device driver would be a better solution. Jörn -- Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Doug MacIlroy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/