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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> While NOR flash can indeed write one byte (or even one bit) at a time, 
> it is not really useful, not in the context of stripe at least.  The NOR 
> write buffer size is a much more useful metric.

That was mentioned in documentation for striping layer core. "For NOR 
devices the bottom border for interleave size is defined by flash buffer 
size". But anyway I think it is worth to mention that interleave size in 
general case can be less than buffer size.