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From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Raghav K <raghavk@myw.ltindia.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Protecting Sectoring
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:52:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098802353.22403.143.camel@icampbell-debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s17eb105.052@EMAIL>

Hi,


On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:47, Raghav K wrote:
> Is there any mechanism by which one could protect and unprotect 
> certain sectors of flash through an application.

There are some ioctls you can issue on the /dev/mtdX devices. There are
examples in mtd cvs in the util subdirectory (lock.c and unlock.c)

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell
Current Noise: Vintersorg - Blindsight Complexity

Wedding rings are the world's smallest handcuffs.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-26 14:52 UTC|newest]

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2004-10-26 14:47 Protecting Sectoring Raghav K
2004-10-26 14:52 ` Ian Campbell [this message]

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