On Monday 11 May 2009 12:38:45 Stefan Roese wrote: > On Monday 11 May 2009 18:27:02 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 11 May 2009 10:03:55 Stefan Roese wrote: > > > This patch brings the U-Boot MTD infrastructure in sync with the > > > current Linux MTD version (2.6.30-rc3). Biggest change is the 64bit > > > device size support and a resync of the mtdpart.c file which has seen > > > multiple fixes meanwhile. > > > > really wish there was a define to control this. large devices are fine, > > but it sucks when majority of people dont hit this limit. > > What is the drawback of this code version? I have to admit that I didn't > compare code size, but this is the only possible drawback coming to my > mind. And the advantages are big enough from my point of view. Being in > sync with Linux once again not only brings 64bit device size support but > removes quite a lot of bugs from the mtd infrastructure (for example used > by UBI). > > And frankly, cluttering the files with another set of #ifdef's doesn't > really sound promising. Additionally this would make future sync's with the > Linux version more troublesome.
i'd see most of the changes be via a typedef and thus there are no ifdefs cluttering up the code -mike
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