mtd_info->write

[Frederic Giasson]

That's right, but a read back validation has to show the error.

Frédéric Giasson




-----Original Message-----
From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2 at infradead.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:36 AM
To: Abraham vd Merwe
Cc: Frederic Giasson; MTD for Linux
Subject: Re: mtd_info->write 




abraham at 2d3d.co.za said:
> > If the data is all ones ("1"), it has been erased.   If not, it has
> > not.

> Yes, I know, but I want to know whether I have to check if that's the
> case or not. 

The chip driver is not required to check that the data are all ones. You 
are permitted to write to the same location of a chip repeatedly. If you 
write a 1 where previously there was a zero, obviously the result will be a 
zero. But that is not an error.

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