Re: [PATCH 1/1] MTD mtdchar: add missing initializer on raw write

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 15:50 +0200, Peter Wippich wrote:
> On writes in MODE_RAW the mtd_oob_ops struct is not sufficiently 
> initialized which may cause nandwrite to fail. With this patch
> it is possible to write raw nand/oob data without additional ECC
> (either for testing or when some sectors need different oob layout
> e.g. bootloader) like
> nandwrite  -n -r -o  /dev/mtd0 <myfile>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Wippich <pewi@gw-instruments.de>

Looks good, thanks. We also need to add this patch to the stable tree.

Ricard, does it solve the issue you reported here

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-March/034516.html

?

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> index 3f92731..797a34a 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> @@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ static ssize_t mtd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count
>                          ops.datbuf = kbuf;
>                          ops.oobbuf = NULL;
>                          ops.len = len;
> +                       ops.ooboffs = 0;
> 
>                          ret = mtd->write_oob(mtd, *ppos, &ops);
>                          retlen = ops.retlen;
> 

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)