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From: Justin Treon <justin_treon@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MTD: Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on
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> 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.
> 

I think that a partition flag is a good idea, but the mtd partition should be
unlocked by defualt if it is not read only and adding the flag will keep it locked.

How do you think it could be done that others would be accepting of it?  I do not
think everyone would like to see another flag that is so close to a read only flag.

Justin


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