Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jan 2002 04:12:53 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/9] mtd: Add a 'block unused' ioctl call to provide hints to block drivers |
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Hi!
> Knowing that the data in a given block is now unused is a useful > feature that some block drivers can take advantage of, especially > when dealing with devices like flash. > > This adds an ioctl which allows such hints to be passed to the
Maybe Documentation/ piece would be nice if this can be called from userspace....
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