diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
index 7a7df851c99339062cce3570cab6833e03465690..608f7af679cbee138fea143cf483b1d9660aa986 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
@@ -512,16 +512,10 @@ static int mtd_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	case MEMSETOOBSEL:
-	{
-		if (copy_from_user(&mtd->oobinfo, argp, sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo)))
-			return -EFAULT;
-		break;
-	}
-
 	case MEMGETOOBSEL:
 	{
-		if (copy_to_user(argp, &(mtd->oobinfo), sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo)))
+		if (copy_to_user(argp, mtd->oobinfo,
+				 sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo)))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		break;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
index 6d52137988faf3e5fe29e628294044a145d37a00..699fce7770de4de356be710bd16e5d22c91571f5 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -766,9 +766,7 @@ struct mtd_info *mtd_concat_create(struct mtd_info *subdev[],	/* subdevices to c
 
 	}
 
-	if(concat->mtd.type == MTD_NANDFLASH)
-		memcpy(&concat->mtd.oobinfo, &subdev[0]->oobinfo,
-			sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo));
+	concat->mtd.oobinfo = subdev[0]->oobinfo;
 
 	concat->num_subdev = num_devs;
 	concat->mtd.name = name;
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index a93550ce797806d9bee045f1cbd708f3abbe66e7..b6b218952d49b24ac76c660eb2f1c80ce74c09f7 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
 		slave->mtd.size = parts[i].size;
 		slave->mtd.writesize = master->writesize;
 		slave->mtd.oobsize = master->oobsize;
-		slave->mtd.oobavail = master->oobavail;
 		slave->mtd.ecctype = master->ecctype;
 		slave->mtd.eccsize = master->eccsize;
 
@@ -435,8 +434,7 @@ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
 				parts[i].name);
 		}
 
-		/* copy oobinfo from master */
-		memcpy(&slave->mtd.oobinfo, &master->oobinfo, sizeof(slave->mtd.oobinfo));
+		slave->mtd.oobinfo = master->oobinfo;
 
 		if(parts[i].mtdp)
 		{	/* store the object pointer (caller may or may not register it */
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index 023224dd12eb56c7f01b054e9bd545aea3c653a0..20f79fec73b5aa1dae88adee771ee599d7e8c0c8 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -2142,14 +2142,6 @@ int nand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int maxchips)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * The number of bytes available for the filesystem to place fs
-	 * dependend oob data
-	 */
-	mtd->oobavail = 0;
-	for (i = 0; chip->autooob->oobfree[i][1]; i++)
-		mtd->oobavail += chip->autooob->oobfree[i][1];
-
 	/*
 	 * check ECC mode, default to software if 3byte/512byte hardware ECC is
 	 * selected and we have 256 byte pagesize fallback to software ECC
@@ -2245,7 +2237,7 @@ int nand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int maxchips)
 	mtd->block_markbad = nand_block_markbad;
 
 	/* and make the autooob the default one */
-	memcpy(&mtd->oobinfo, chip->autooob, sizeof(mtd->oobinfo));
+	mtd->oobinfo = chip->autooob;
 
 	/* Check, if we should skip the bad block table scan */
 	if (chip->options & NAND_SKIP_BBTSCAN)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
index 7a2419186ff44b25cb65e422d3e9ffcaa4f17254..b24bfa6e202c59a53c5e7cfba5b94e7fc3cf74a1 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
@@ -1762,7 +1762,7 @@ int onenand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int maxchips)
 		break;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(&mtd->oobinfo, this->autooob, sizeof(mtd->oobinfo));
+	mtd->oobinfo = this->autooob;
 
 	/* Fill in remaining MTD driver data */
 	mtd->type = MTD_NANDFLASH;
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
index 717fa2f52ac20e64d8c19c6b233bbdc188a939a0..dc275cedfe4a6d5b92c2ffb855ef1ed4778c39d7 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ static struct nand_oobinfo jffs2_oobinfo_docecc = {
 
 static int jffs2_nand_set_oobinfo(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 {
-	struct nand_oobinfo *oinfo = &c->mtd->oobinfo;
+	struct nand_oobinfo *oinfo = c->mtd->oobinfo;
 
 	/* Do this only, if we have an oob buffer */
 	if (!c->mtd->oobsize)
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
index 41a984dcb1397b80277895f33d7d2d2c137cac05..8429da51bb093f963180f7fe6aa4b3d9b070b9d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
@@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ struct mtd_info {
 	char *name;
 	int index;
 
-	// oobinfo is a nand_oobinfo structure, which can be set by iotcl (MEMSETOOBINFO)
-	struct nand_oobinfo oobinfo;
-	u_int32_t oobavail;  // Number of bytes in OOB area available for fs
+	/* oobinfo structure pointer - read only ! */
+	struct nand_oobinfo *oobinfo;
 
 	/* Data for variable erase regions. If numeraseregions is zero,
 	 * it means that the whole device has erasesize as given above.