Re: [PATCH] mtd: set mtd partition panic write flag

Miquel Raynal
2020-01-09T17:28:12Z

Hi Kamal,

Kamal Dasu <kamal.dasu@broadcom.com> wrote on Thu, 9 Jan 2020 10:25:59
-0500:

> Miquel,
>
> Yes the issue is still open. I was trying to understand the suggestion
> and did not get a reply on the question I had
>
> Richard wrote :
> "So the right fix would be setting the parent's oops_panic_write in
> mtd_panic_write().
> Then we don't have to touch mtdpart.c"
>
> How do I get access to the parts parent in the core ?. Maybe I am
> missing something.

I think the solution is to set the oops_panic_write of the root parent, instead of updating the flag of the mtd device itself (which is maybe a partition).

Would this help?

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mtd/msg10454.html

Thanks,
Miquèl