On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 16:20 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > > The only usage of this driver is emulating a block device on top of NOR > > flash, and in most cases, only for debugging / research purposes. This > > is because (a) this driver does not handle bad blocks (and hence, > > NAND-incompatible) and (b) it does read-erase-write when you modify a > > block, so it is extremely slow and does not handle power cuts at all. > I think you got things mixed up a bit. This is not about emulating a > block device on top of NOR flash. This is about emulating NOR flash on > top of a regular block device - e.g. USB sticks, SD cards.
Gosh, I'm sorry, you are right. I did mix things up, please, ignore my e-mail. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
