Happy Happy Joy Joy. MTD code is working nicely on my toy with JFFS as the root filesystem. So I made a new release and also sent it to Linus in the hope that he'll put it into 2.4 as it's "only new drivers." Now I can work on making a CONFIG_BLK_DEV option so that I can turn it off.
Managed to catch the elusive sct during a brief period of connexion and prod him for vmap_iobuf() again. He's still on dialup because BT haven't managed to move his leased line yet - only two or three weeks after they were supposed to have done it.
Fucking Useless Telco.