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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Hi Andrea,

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 09:42:31AM +0200, Andrea Adami wrote:
> this one was part of a patchset composed of 3 patches, see
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/763
> 
> The other two have been merged in 3.16-rc3:
> 9218310  ARM: 8084/1: sa1100: collie: revert back to cfi_probe
> 3abe742 ARM: 8085/1: sa1100: collie: add top boot mtd partition
> 
> Now the actual situation with 3.16-rc3 is bad, the nor is locked at
> boot and buffer write is broken.
> 
> Ideally the present patch should be sent upstream as fix for the next -rc.

Hmm, I'll see what I can do about this. In the future, you should
probably ensure that the dependent patch gets merged before trying to
make use of it in another subsystem.

Applied to l2-mtd.git. It looks pretty targeted, so I'll queue it up
with a few other -stable fixes that are going out in the next week.

Brian