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Subject: Re: MTD pointer alignment
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 13:09 +1300, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> Given that mtdchar assumes that it can mess with the low 2 bits of the
> MTD pointer it keeps around with impunity, add_mtd_device in mtdcore.c
> should probably refuse to add any MTD device pointer that doesn't fall
> on a 4-byte boundary.

Hmm, I personally I do not understand what is this about.

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