[PATCH] cfi: AMD/Fujitsu compatibles: add panic write support

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 11:26 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 01/06/12 20:29, Ira W. Snyder wrote:
> > This allows the mtdoops driver to work on flash chips using the
> > AMD/Fujitsu compatible command set.
> >
> > As the code comments note, the locks used throughout the normal code
> > paths in the driver are ignored, so that the chance of writing out the
> > kernel's last messages are maximized.
> 
> This patch made me looking at the panic code, but should not this be 
> made conditionnal to the enabling/disabling of the MTD oops driver?

What do you mean? Conceptually, the driver is a low-level entity and it
provides I/O mechanisms, and it should have no idea who will use them -
be that is mtdoops or anything else.

Artem.