mtd/drivers/mtd/nand sharpsl.c,1.4,1.5

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Tue Sep 6 11:34:46 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:22 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: 
> On Tue, 6 September 2005 16:17:19 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:08 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > > With Ferenc's patch in, MTD_NO_VIRTBLOCKS has lost its effect.  I
> > > guess we will remove that flag sometime in the near future.
> 
> Actually, this flag is important to *everybody*.  Whoever thought up
> the hack to use virtual blocks instead of physical ones was plain
> stupid and opened the door for incompatibilities, data loss and who
> knows what else.
> 
> Hence, Ferenc made the flag implicit.  Actually, he was a bit smarter
> and only made it implicit when required.  Either way, the virtual
> blocks are gone, thankfully.

Ah, so this flag is enabled for everyone now? If so, that's fine. I was
thinking you meant there was no longer a way to disable virtual blocks
which was worrying me, a lot :)

Cheers,

Richard - relived





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