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

[Justin Treon]

> > > > 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.
> 

Then what is the point of the read only flag?



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