[PATCH] [MTD] m25p80: memory accessor interface for SPI MTD driver

[Sudhakar Rajashekhara]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:54:01, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009, Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
> > On TI's da850/omap-l138 EVM, MAC address is stored in SPI flash.
> > This patch implements memory accessor interface for SPI MTD
> > driver which enables the kernel to access flash data.
> 
> If that's going to be possible, shouldn't it work for any
> MTD device?  And the lack of protection bothers me a bit
> more here than with EEPROMs and NVRAM, since it seems kind
> of easy to clobber UBI (or JFFS2 etc) data.  Maybe there
> should be a way to make jus a specific partition available
> this way?
> 

I have submitted the modified version of this patch which
implements the accessor interface in mtdpart.c file so that
it works for any mtd drivers (NAND, NOR, SPI).

Regards, Sudhakar