Hi! I am working on adding support for MTD [0] flash to parted. This started out as part of Google's Summer of Code program for Debian, but that ends soon (two weeks or so), and I doubt I will have it all finished within that timeframe. Of course I am going to continue developing this after GSoC.
Anyway, when I have been fiddling around with parted sources I have seen that it heavily expects devices to be block devices. MTD can be accessed as character devices with mtdchar and block devices with mtdblock. I want to access MTD as character devices because I also want to add support for UBI [1]. Justification: When an MTD device is attached to UBI, this is done with the character device file. (Read more about MTD and UBI at [2].) My question is basically if it is OK to change parted's block device centric behaviour to also accept (probably only MTD) character device files. I suppose that most of the changes will go into libparted/arch/linux.c. The functions I have been looking at so far are: * linux_new * read_device_sysfs_file * sdmmc_init * sdmmc_get_product_info All the best, Per [0] Memory Technology Device [1] Unsorted Block Images, sort of like LVM for MTD. [2] http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/ _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
