[patch] Only probe for device combinations that fit in map's bankwidth.
Josh Boyer
jdub at us.ibm.com
Thu Sep 16 07:50:10 EDT 2004
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 05:49, David Vrabel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recent MTD changed how chip probing is done and it now probes for chips
> of all bus widths. On my board (IXP425 with 16-bit AMD AM29LV128 flash)
> probing for 8-bit wide devices cannot work because 8-bit writes/reads to
> 16-bit devices aren't allowed (they cause data aborts). So...
>
> Make genprobe_new_chip() only probe for combinations that fit in the
> map's bankwidth.
MTD CVS has this fixed already. I noticed the same behavior right after
dwmw2 merged with Linus. Can you try what's there and see if it fixes
your problem?
josh
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