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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, bernds_cb1@t-online.de, dhowells@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] NOMMU: Make it possible for RomFS to use MTD devices directly
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:12:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090219161211.9b80c129.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212104010.26766.20813.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:40:10 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Change RomFS so that it can use MTD devices directly - without the intercession
> of the block layer - as well as using block devices.
> 
> This permits RomFS:
> 
>  (1) to use the MTD direct mapping facility available under NOMMU conditions if
>      the underlying device is directly accessible by the CPU (including XIP);
> 
>  (2) and thus to be used when the block layer is disabled.
> 
> RomFS can be configured with support just for MTD devices, just for Block
> devices or for both.  If RomFS is configured for both, then it will treat
> mtdblock device files as MTD backing stores, not block layer backing stores.

My x86_64 usualconfig just exploded with

fs/romfs/storage.c:18:2: error: #error no ROMFS backing store interface configured

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-20  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-12 10:40 [PATCH 1/4] NOMMU: Present backing device capabilities for MTD chardevs David Howells
2009-02-12 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] NOMMU: Add support for direct mapping through mtdconcat if possible David Howells
2009-02-12 10:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] NOMMU: Make it possible for RomFS to use MTD devices directly David Howells
2009-02-20  0:12   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-20 12:11   ` David Howells
2009-02-20 12:31   ` David Howells
2009-02-12 10:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] MTD: Fix a bad dependency in the Blackfin code David Howells

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