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From: "Andrew Victor" <avictor.za@gmail.com>
To: "David Brownell" <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.27-rc2] MTD: make dataflash write-verify be optional
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:40:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd73a99e0808070340s29932337o74293afc91d128f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808062155.14366.david-b@pacbell.net>

hi,

> It doesn't seem to add a
> lot in terms of reliability, and wouldn't detect errors which
> crop up when transferring data to the on-chip SRAM buffer.

Yes, it was originally added for detecting bad/dead bits on the flash.

[I think some (obsolete) DataFlash revisions (C?) didn't have the
compare functionality, though revision B did.  Or atleast it wasn't
defined in the rev C datasheets.  It did return "success" on those
chips though].


Acked-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07  4:55 [patch 2.6.27-rc2] MTD: make dataflash write-verify be optional David Brownell
2008-08-07 10:34 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-08-07 10:40 ` Andrew Victor [this message]

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