P30 flash left in read status mode after a write

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Jon Ringle wrote:

> I am running Linux 2.6.16.29 and I've 
> found that whenever a write is done to the jffs2 filesystem that flash 
> is left in read status mode and anything trying to do a read of flash 
> directly reads only 0x0080. Reading from an mtd device seems to fix the 
> problem.

This is done on purpose.  And as you deduced yourself this is so to 
avoid ...

> taking a slight performance hit to consecutive jffs2 write operations 
> because now each write operation will need to spend more cycles putting 
> the flash in to a write mode.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.

First, why is this a problem for you?


Nicolas