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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, andrew@lunn.ch,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mtd: mchp23k256: add partitioning support
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:21:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170608232110.GG102137@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170602110406.49eda282@bbrezillon>

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 11:04:06AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> BTW, MTD_NO_ERASE is not the only problem we have with UBI or JFFS2.
> Are we guaranteed that an erase operation fills an eraseblock with
> ones? Don't we have mem technologies that are filling them with zeros?
> Note that mtdram is artificially setting the mem-region to 0xff in its
> dummy erase operation, so maybe it's a implicit rule that ->_erase() is
> supposed to fill eraseblocks with 0xff.

I've wondered about the general assumption. But mtdram isn't really a
good example, because it clearly calls itself a "test mtd device". So it
makes sense it would emulate common MTDs (i.e., flash memory).

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-08 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-17  5:39 [PATCH 0/4] mtd: mchp23k256: device tree and mchp23lcv1024 Chris Packham
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] mtd: mchp23k256: Add OF device ID table Chris Packham
2017-05-17 11:44   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] mtd: mchp23k256: switch to mtd_device_register() Chris Packham
2017-05-17 11:48   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] mtd: mchp23k256: add partitioning support Chris Packham
2017-05-17 14:18   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17 15:29   ` Boris Brezillon
2017-05-22  4:52     ` Chris Packham
2017-05-22  7:38       ` Boris Brezillon
2017-06-01 18:43     ` Brian Norris
2017-06-01 20:47       ` Boris Brezillon
2017-06-01 22:01         ` Brian Norris
2017-06-02  9:04           ` Boris Brezillon
2017-06-08 23:21             ` Brian Norris [this message]
2017-06-01 21:30       ` Chris Packham
2017-06-01 22:23         ` Brian Norris
2017-06-01 23:08           ` Chris Packham
2017-06-08 23:18             ` Brian Norris
2017-05-17  5:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] mtd: mchp23k256: Add support for mchp23lcv1024 Chris Packham
2017-05-17 12:17   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-18  4:36   ` Chris Packham
2017-05-17 11:41 ` [PATCH 0/4] mtd: mchp23k256: device tree and mchp23lcv1024 Andrew Lunn
2017-05-17 14:19 ` Andrew Lunn

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