From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763363AbYDQJLM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:11:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756652AbYDQJKx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:10:53 -0400 Received: from 87-194-8-8.bethere.co.uk ([87.194.8.8]:53875 "EHLO kira.home.fluff.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756008AbYDQJKv (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:10:51 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 552 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:10:51 EDT Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:01:37 +0100 From: Ben Dooks To: Alex Dubov Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments Message-ID: <20080417090137.GB16284@fluff.org.uk> References: <466372.69780.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <466372.69780.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Disclaimer: These are my own opinions, so there! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:50:33AM -0700, Alex Dubov wrote: > I've implemented, with generous help from JMicron, a native support for Smartmedia/xD picture card > media. Currently, only JMicron backend is available, but TI expressed some interest in this too, > so TI Flashmedia backend may soon follow. > > Smartmedia cards are quite akin to the dumb flash chips, but they have their quirks that put them > aside as a separate media type. They're NAND chips, just with a standard ECC/block replacement stratergy... why isn't this under drivers/mtd ? -- Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'