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Subject: Re: Problem: 51MB partition max size on jffs2 
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DGE@sixnetio.com said:
>  kmalloc() is limited to 128K and the 128MB Flash needs more than
> twice that,

> so I tried vmalloc() and it seems to be OK (at least with PPC 2.4.18
> patched for the new MTD code). Does anyone know if this change is
> safe? 

You need to change the corresponding kfree() to vfree().

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dwmw2