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From: Justin Treon <justin_treon@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MTD: Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on
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> > Adding the ability to unlock a partition on mount is not a bad idea, but it
> should
> > not be the only way.  I often write to an mtd block device without mounting it
> and I
> > do not always use jffs2 as my writable filing system.
> 
> Never heard of the MTD flash-unlock user space utility?
> 

That does not help me on boot up.  I already have filing sytems that run that
through scripts on startup for some of my test images.

Justin

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