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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: Linux MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.29 1/2] MTD: driver model updates
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 01:51:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac3eb2510903311651i4c5f6805tc74fe04ee765be9c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903311418.53772.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 23:18, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 March 2009, David Brownell wrote:
>> From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
>>
>> Update driver model support in the MTD framework, so it fits
>> better into the current udev-based hotplug framework:
>
> Hmm, no comments?  I had understood there was interest over on
> the MTD side of things in exposing more information through
> sysfs, to help avoid the need to add Even More Ioctls as part
> of support for things like NAND chips with 4KB pages, or which
> handle more than 4GBytes ...

Please have a look at this. We got asked repeatedly to provide better
hotplug/udev integration, and the patches, and having the parent
device properly assigned, would solve some of the problems people run
into currently.

Thanks,
Kay

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-26  7:42 David Brownell
2009-03-31 21:18 ` David Brownell
2009-03-31 23:51   ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2009-04-01 13:43     ` Juergen Beisert
2009-04-01  1:17   ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-01  3:21     ` David Brownell
2009-04-01  4:49       ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-01  6:36         ` David Brownell
2009-04-02 23:41 ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-03  7:03   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-03  7:09     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-03 20:00     ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-04 14:36       ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-04 16:17         ` Kevin Cernekee
2009-04-04 16:20         ` David Brownell
2009-04-04 16:29           ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-04 17:18       ` David Brownell
2009-04-06  5:34   ` Greg KH
2009-04-03 10:04 ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-03 17:24   ` David Brownell

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