Re: Possible MTD bug in 2.6.15

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

On Sat, 22 April 2006 21:48:28 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> 
> And really, it's not a big stretch from what the code currently does
> to what my patch changes.  At this point in the code, we know for a
> fact that we already have at least one flash chip.  The math that's
> going on here with the 'max_chips' variable is to check if there is
> actually more than one physical chip implementing the entire reported
> size.  The only mistake is that the math goes too far, shifting the
> count down to zero if the reported size is too small.  This
> 'max_chips' should never be allowed to be lower than 1, because we
> really do know that there is at least one flash chip.

In a setup like yours, someone should go and educate hardware
developers.

Anyway, if you add a CONFIG_BROKEN_HARDWARE of some sorts to your
patch and send it to the proper list (linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org),
I don't have a problem with your patch.

Jörn

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