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Subject: Re: acceptable chip driver limitations 
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abraham@2d3d.co.za said:
>  No, I'm talking about mtd->read() and mtd->write. Surely they can
> return errors? If not, what about physical write/read errors? 

Sorry, I misunderstood. No, that is not acceptable. You must accept 
unaligned and odd-sized writes. You can just special-case the first and 
last read/write cycles, padding writes with 0xFF. See how the existing 
driver for Intel chips does it.


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