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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.
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