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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] MTD: make MTD_CONCAT support mandatory
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 13:05 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> On 2/25/11, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 17:07 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> >> What about this series? Will it find it's way to kernel or should I do
> >> some more steps?
> >
> > They still sit in my l2-mtd-2.6.git tree. You are not expected to do
> > anything, David should look at them an pick them (or reject with an
> > e-mail explaining the reasons) later. Usually he does this closer to the
> > merge window.
> 
> Fine, thank you for the explanation. I was just asking because I did not
> know the process behind MTD subsystem.
> 
> BTW: I've heard the idea about making MTD partitions also a mandatory
> functionality of MTD subsystem. If I make such patches, will stand a chance
> to be accepted, or it's still better to keep MTD parts an option?

Yeah, it is obvious that CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS is a problem:

[dedekind@eru linux-2.6 (master)]$ grep -r CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS drivers/mtd/* | wc -l
128

If you could clean this up, that would be great!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)