Block lock-bits

Christopher Hoover ch at murgatroid.com
Fri Mar 19 12:24:38 EST 2004


> ioctl(MEMUNLOCK) on /dev/mtdX character device.
> 
> If this is the silly chip that automatically locks every time 
> you power cycle it, then perhaps we ought to be unlocking the 
> whole thing when we detect it.

It is.  I have a patch in my tree that unlocks the flash in my mapping
driver (sa1100), but perhaps it ought to be generalized a bit.

-ch




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