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From: Norbert van Bolhuis <nvbolhuis@aimvalley.nl>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: Kevin Cernekee <kpc.mtd@gmail.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] MTD: Add UBI reboot notifier
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:45:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B755B72.9060805@aimvalley.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265980392.29027.12.camel@localhost>

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> FYI, I do not like this patch, because it is not solving the problem, it
> just makes the problem less likely. I.e., you are still screwed if you
> reboot while some other task is doing erasure. Indeed, the background
> thread is not the only task which may do erases.
> 
> I'm not going to revert this patch, but wanted to let you know that I
> think it was my mistake to push it.
> 

so, how to solve this properly ?

probably the only way is the reboot notifier of the MTD chip driver
(for NOR flash only cmdset_0001 has one).


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-12 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09  5:14 [PATCH] MTD: Add UBI reboot notifier Kevin Cernekee
2009-06-09 12:13 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-09 12:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-09 17:59   ` [PATCHv2] " Kevin Cernekee
2009-06-10  9:35     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-10 11:59       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-10 17:27       ` Kevin Cernekee
2010-02-12 13:13     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-02-12 13:45       ` Norbert van Bolhuis [this message]
2010-02-12 15:20         ` David Woodhouse
2010-02-12 15:21         ` Artem Bityutskiy

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