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From: "Christopher Hoover" <ch@murgatroid.com>
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Subject: RE: How does one mount an existing jffs2 partition so it is writeable?
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:45:42 -0700
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> If this is a problem (feature/whatever) of one flash type, why not
> encapsulate it in the low level driver? It would keep the jffs2 code
> clean of what could be considered a bugfix.

That was my first thought. I submitted such a patch (-- it should be in
the archives), but IIRC David didn't want it applied to CVS.  He
suggested that I move this to the SA-1100 partition code.   I did that,
but that has its own ugliness.

-ch