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Subject: Re: Access MTD device from kernel module?
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alan Shih <alan@storlinksemi.com>
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On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:43 -0700, Alan Shih wrote:
> I got stuck with a problem regarding a hardware driver (i.e. NIC driver)
> trying to read a MTD partition.
> 
> I know I can export MTD's functions as kernel symbols but not sure if that's
> the best way to do this.

struct mtd_info *mtd = get_mtd_device(NULL, mtd_nr);

mtd->read(...);

put_mtd_device(mtd);


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