Re: Smartmedia/xd card support - request for comments

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 15:11:59 EST


On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, JÃrn Engel wrote:
> On Thu, 17 April 2008 15:38:17 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > No it is not. SmardMedia is a bare NAND chip, which is already covered
> > by MTD. There are already other FTLs on top of MTD and the SmartMedia
> > format just can be added to those.
>
> Isn't drivers/mtd/ssfdc.c - despite its name - an implementation of the
> SmartMedia FTL? When I last looked at it, I failed to see any
> functional differences.

Oops. I did not bother to look into drivers/mtd and for some reason it
slipped out of my memory that it got mainlined. It's read only, but
the missing bits to make it r/w are not that hard. At least less code
than duplicating code all over the place for no good reason.

Thanks,
tglx