From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755866Ab0FHRnh (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:43:37 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:55568 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755832Ab0FHRnf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:43:35 -0400 Subject: [STAGING] Spectra Flash Translation Layer From: David Woodhouse To: Greg KH Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:43:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1276019010.22896.13.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.1.2 (2.30.1.2-6.fc13) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg, please pull from git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/spectra-2.6.git This was previously known as the 'Moorestown NAND flash driver'. In fact, we have a proper MTD driver for that hardware now, and the only part we want is the FTL -- the pseudo-filesystem which pretends to be a disk drive. It's a silly approach to using flash; we ought to be using proper flash file systems on it instead. But we need this on at least part of the flash for compatibility with legacy firmware. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation