From: Justin Treon <justin_treon@yahoo.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MTD: Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on power up
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:36:03 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <162938.6418.qm@web43137.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711091515040.21255@xanadu.home>
> > > > Adding the ability to unlock a partition on mount is not a bad idea, but it
> > > should
> > > > not be the only way. I often write to an mtd block device without mounting
> it
> > > and I
> > > > do not always use jffs2 as my writable filing system.
> > >
> > > Never heard of the MTD flash-unlock user space utility?
> > >
> >
> > That does not help me on boot up. I already have filing sytems that run that
> > through scripts on startup for some of my test images.
>
> What about a new partition flag then? When set the unlock method would
> be called on the corresponding partition if the partition is not already
> marked read-only.
>
Then what is the point of the read only flag?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 0:03 [PATCH 1/1] MTD: Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on power up Justin Treon
2007-11-09 0:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-09 17:31 ` Justin Treon
2007-11-09 17:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-09 18:23 ` Justin Treon
2007-11-09 18:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-09 19:34 ` Justin Treon
2007-11-09 20:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-09 20:36 ` Justin Treon [this message]
2007-11-09 20:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-09 23:05 ` Jörn Engel
2007-11-12 21:23 ` Justin Treon
2007-11-12 21:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 22:50 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-11-13 2:02 ` NFTL for using FAT file system on NAND data partition Gangadhar Kodishala
2007-11-13 3:39 ` falls huang
2007-11-13 18:10 ` Gangadhar Kodishala
2007-11-13 4:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] MTD: Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on power up Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-13 17:40 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-11-13 19:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-13 23:35 ` Justin Treon
2007-11-14 0:16 ` Justin Treon
2007-11-14 1:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-13 4:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-09 1:30 ` Josh Boyer
2007-11-09 18:08 ` Justin Treon
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