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Subject: Re: NOR read/write beyond end of flash partition
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Tigadi Kiran-r10350c <R10350C@freescale.com>
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Hello,

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:45 +0530, Tigadi Kiran-r10350c wrote:
> But mtd_read routine implemented in the same file does not have this
> check. So when I try to read beyond end of NOR MTD partition it is
> returning 0.=20

Sounds like a bug, feel free to send a patch against mtd-2.6.git tree.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
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