From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ee0-f49.google.com ([74.125.83.49]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1RkjxD-0001jV-K5 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:14:04 +0000 Received: by eekc4 with SMTP id c4so30631eek.36 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:14:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfi: AMD/Fujitsu compatibles: add panic write support From: Artem Bityutskiy To: "Ira W. Snyder" Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:13:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1325878159-32306-1-git-send-email-iws@ovro.caltech.edu> References: <1325878159-32306-1-git-send-email-iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1326233641.2335.16.camel@koala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 11:29 -0800, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > This allows the mtdoops driver to work on flash chips using the > AMD/Fujitsu compatible command set. > > As the code comments note, the locks used throughout the normal code > paths in the driver are ignored, so that the chance of writing out the > kernel's last messages are maximized. > > Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks!