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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices
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    On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
    > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:20:46 -0700
    > "Tim Anderson" <tanderson@mvista.com> wrote:
    >
    > > Artem,
    > >
    > > I see your point. Ioctls are going away after all.
    >
    > I don't know where that stupid story keeps coming from. Ioctl is alive
    > and well and there are more not less of them. There are lots of things
    > you *cannot* do with sysfs, including synchronization and handling
    > many kinds of changes to objects that can appear and disappear. Ditto
    > there are problems with getting a consistent snapshot via sysfs because
    > you can't atomically read multiple fields.
    >
    > So please stop this 'ioctls are going away' stuff, its bunkum.

    True, and we'll definitely need a new MEMERASE64 ioctl. But for the
    _informational_ parts, those can happily be done through sysfs.

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    David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
    David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation





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