[PATCH 1/1] MTD: Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on power up

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Justin Treon wrote:

> 
> > > Adding the ability to unlock a partition on mount is not a bad idea, but it
> > should
> > > not be the only way.  I often write to an mtd block device without mounting it
> > and I
> > > do not always use jffs2 as my writable filing system.
> > 
> > Never heard of the MTD flash-unlock user space utility?
> > 
> 
> That does not help me on boot up.  I already have filing sytems that run that
> through scripts on startup for some of my test images.

What about a new partition flag then?  When set the unlock method would 
be called on the corresponding partition if the partition is not already 
marked read-only.


Nicolas