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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Zhi Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
Cc: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>, White Ding <bpqw@micron.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com
Subject: Re: mtd: nand: lock unlock function
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:57:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141105205706.GP23619@ld-irv-0074> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHrpEqSum1__d5Y1tysEzpa_MGuQSWfOW=m4idSxzCTdGbNKTQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 02:31:34PM -0600, Zhi Li wrote:
> Does any know the reason why there are nand_lock and nand_unlock
> function in nand_base.c, but
> 
>         mtd->_lock = NULL;
>         mtd->_unlock = NULL;
> 
> Not set to nand_lock and nand_unlock?

Possible answers:

 * Lack of testing

 * The LOCK/UNLOCK opcodes are not supported by all vendors

 * Even the vendors that support them don't do so consistently (not sure
   about this one; I know Micron supports this in some cases)

 * The opcodes aren't even documented (again, I'm not even sure about
   this one; but many Micron datasheets I see don't mention LOCK/UNLOCK.
   I recall that other similar lock/protection implementations are
   secret to some extent, and are intentionally omitted from the
   datasheets)

I'd be happy to be proven wrong on any of these points.

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-05 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-05 20:31 mtd: nand: lock unlock function Zhi Li
2014-11-05 20:57 ` Brian Norris [this message]
2014-11-05 22:00   ` Zhi Li
2014-11-06  0:50     ` Huang Shijie
2014-11-06  2:32     ` bpqw
2014-11-06  3:31       ` Zhi Li

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