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kira@linuxgrrls.org said:
> > If you write to a region which already contains data, then read back
> > and compare with the data you wrote, you're likely to see differences.

> And if you don't see differences, then what's the problem? 

There is no problem. Either way. I may want to write 
~JFFS2_NODETYPE_ACCURATE to a word on the flash chip. I don't care about 
any bits apart from the _one_ bit I asked it to zero.


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