[PATCH] Fix 'Flash device refused suspend due to active operation' message

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Feb 15 06:48:34 EST 2012


From: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>

While debugging on SA11x0, the following message was observed:

"Flash device refused suspend due to active operation (state 20)"

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
I'm afraid that it's been too long since I looked at this, and I no
longer remember the details behind this to write a proper commit log,
so maybe someone who understands the code can do that.  I seem to
remember dwmw2 said the current code was in error, so here's the
patch.

 drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c
index e1e122f..709a11f 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c
@@ -2483,7 +2483,7 @@ static int cfi_intelext_suspend(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 			   allowed to. Or should we return -EAGAIN, because the upper layers
 			   ought to have already shut down anything which was using the device
 			   anyway? The latter for now. */
-			printk(KERN_NOTICE "Flash device refused suspend due to active operation (state %d)\n", chip->oldstate);
+			printk(KERN_NOTICE "Flash device refused suspend due to active operation (state %d)\n", chip->state);
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 		case FL_PM_SUSPENDED:
 			break;




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