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From: Graham Moore <grmoore@opensource.altera.com>
To: Manikandan Ramachandran <crmanik@gmail.com>,
	<linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd-utils: Support jffs2 flash-erase for large OOB (>32b)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 10:22:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40ec1dc1-210a-77fb-89d5-779b930c3764@opensource.altera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438886294.23233.6.camel@mramach3-lnx001>

On 08/06/2015 01:38 PM, Manikandan Ramachandran wrote:
> "flash_erase" fails on nand flash with JFFS2 that has OOB size greater than
> 32 bytes. "flash_erase" uses "MEMGETOOSEL" to determine OOB size. This ioctl
> call is obsolete and returns error if OOB size is more than 32 bytes.
>
> This patch fixes this issue by using "mtd_write" to update clean-marker
> instead of mtd_oob_write. This fix is based on the discussion:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-September/037958.html.
>

Hi Manikandan,

I'd like to use this patch in our Angstrom/Yocto builds, but our company 
policy doesn't allow patches that aren't signed off.

I wonder if you could re-post this with your sign-off?  I'd really 
appreciate it.

Thanks!
Graham Moore

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-06 18:38 [PATCH] mtd-utils: Support jffs2 flash-erase for large OOB (>32b) Manikandan Ramachandran
2016-09-06 15:22 ` Graham Moore [this message]
2016-09-06 16:17   ` Richard Weinberger
2016-09-06 18:24     ` Graham Moore

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