[PATCH 3/3] [MTD] mtdoops: Fix a bug where block may not be erased

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Sat Jul 26 05:08:41 EDT 2008


This makes the driver erase a block when it doesn't find any
existing saved log messages which is safer than assuming the
flash was already erased.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net>
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
index 6f6b2f3..aebb3b2 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdoops.c
@@ -258,9 +258,7 @@ static void find_next_position(struct mtdoops_context *cxt)
 	if (maxcount == 0xffffffff) {
 		cxt->nextpage = 0;
 		cxt->nextcount = 1;
-		cxt->ready = 1;
-		printk(KERN_DEBUG "mtdoops: Ready %d, %d (first init)\n",
-				cxt->nextpage, cxt->nextcount);
+		schedule_work(&cxt->work_erase);
 		return;
 	}
 
-- 
1.5.4.4





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