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From: Darius Augulis <augulis.darius@gmail.com>
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Richard Retanubun wrote:
> Hi Darius,

Hi Richard,

> 
> I am tracking this patch that you submitted for the MTD mailing list and
> I think I am missing the rest of the discussion between this
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-April/025089.html
> 
> and the patch being committed to the kernel.org mainline here:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c;h=61ea833e09086e631024f298575678ff3f123ea3;hb=HEAD 
> 

actually there is nothing to miss because discussion was finished with 
04/01/2009 post from myself. Seem David found it ready to main line.
If you thing it is regression please mail to ML.

> 
> I am planning to use this flash part on our design also and was 
> wondering if you got a chance to
> exercise the part as an mtdblock or mtdchar device and if the issue 
> persist there or is is only limited to using
> the part with jffs2? when the issue does happen, does it happen ALL the 
> time or some of the time?

I used it only with jffs2. If write buffer is enabled, error occurs 
every time.

> 
> Sorry if I'm re-asking somethings that you have explained before, feel 
> free to point me to the
> proper discussion thread if I am.

I thing this ML is the only place where this patch was discussed.

> 
> Thanks in advance for your time,
> 
> - Richard Retanubun.
> 
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