From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jim Ramsay <kernel@jimramsay.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible MTD bug in 2.6.15
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:30:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1148992208.2885.171.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4789af9e0604190949t42677b35mcba4ee57b92ffff9@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:49 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> We have an interesting problem with MTD and a flash chip on an
> embedded board. The problem stems from the fact that due to hardware
> constraints we can only access up to 32M of address space on an
> attached flash device. However, the actual part attached to the board
> is 64M. Yes, I know this is not likely to happen, but it points at a
> kernel bug which will happen if you ever specify a MTD map->size which
> is less than the actual size of the CFI flash chip.
Please could you confirm this is fixed in the current MTD git tree (and
in the current -mm kernel).
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-30 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-19 16:49 Jim Ramsay
2006-04-19 17:06 ` Thiago Galesi
2006-04-19 17:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-05-30 12:30 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
[not found] <1145723704.3524.TMDA@mail.tag.jimramsay.com>
2006-04-22 16:49 ` Fw: " Jim Ramsay
2006-04-22 17:08 ` Thiago Galesi
2006-04-23 3:48 ` Jim Ramsay
2006-04-23 7:45 ` Jörn Engel
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