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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Ian <Relativity@HumanHeuristic.com>,
	ollie@sis.com.tw, mtd@infradead.org, linuxbios@lanl.gov
Subject: Re: Problems with r/w on mtdblock0
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:54:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32011.976028063@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012050749450.20717-100000@mini.acl.lanl.gov>


rminnich@lanl.gov said:
>  I've had this happen. Don't worry about it.  

If you writing stuff to the mtdblock device and then reboot immediately, 
you may be rebooting before the kernel thread actually completes the write.
I'm not sure if it makes you wait on close() or not. P'raps it should.

Using doc_loadbios on the chardevice should be reliable.

--
dwmw2




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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-05 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-05  1:54 Problems with r/w on mtdblock0 Ian
2000-12-05  9:15 ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-05 14:50 ` Ronald G Minnich
2000-12-05 14:54   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-12-05 15:34     ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-12-05 15:36       ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-05 19:38         ` Ronald G Minnich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-06  4:33 Ian
2000-12-06  3:07 Ian
2000-12-06  2:45 Ian
2000-12-06  2:28 Ian
2000-12-06  2:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-12-06  0:19 Ian
2000-12-06  0:41 ` Ollie Lho
2000-12-06  2:18   ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-12-05  0:42 Ian
2000-12-04 22:36 Ian
2000-12-05  1:10 ` Ollie Lho

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