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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:44:33 -0800
From: Alice Hennessy <ahennessy@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: erase.c
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David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] Kári Davíđsson wrote:
>
> > Maybe it is ambigous to do force unlocking of sectors like this.
> > Should we maybe have a separate utility to lock/unlock sectors?
>
> Use a separate utility. Locking isn't very useful if the code
> automatically unlocks the chip for you if you try to overwrite it :)
>
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I've checked in utility files unlock.c and lock.c  and a new Makefile to
include them.

I still need to fix the parameter checking in mtdpart.c and
cfi_cmdset_0001.c to insure
that the unlock is for the entire flash.

Alice



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