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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Stephan Linke <Stephan.Linke@epygi.de>
Cc: Linux-Mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: using multile partitions on one NAND chip
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:29:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101313746.9481.8.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NGENJJFPMHGLPILEKKAMMEAECFAA.Stephan.Linke@epygi.de>

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:40 +0100, Stephan Linke wrote:
> Hi,

Please fix your mail client, to 80 characters per line.
Read http://david.woodhou.se/email.html

> anyone tried using multiple partitions on a NAND flash?

Ever looked into the various drivers in drivers/mtd/nand ?

> I can't find the protection mechanism that protects lets
> say an erase on one block against a read command on the
> other block.

nand_get_chip() contains the protection.

> efficient protection for this. It looks like nand_chip->chip_lock 
> should do this job but it only protects

chip_lock is only for SMP and the lock/unlock macros contain the
preemption control if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. The lock itself is a NOOP on UP
systems

tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-24 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-24 14:40 using multile partitions on one NAND chip Stephan Linke
2004-11-24 16:29 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
     [not found] <NGENJJFPMHGLPILEKKAMMEAFCFAA.Stephan.Linke@epygi.de>
2004-11-24 18:28 ` Stephan Linke
2004-11-24 20:05   ` Thomas Gleixner

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