[PATCH] mtd: docg3 fix in-middle of blocks reads

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 13:19 +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> 
> The reason seams that the first 111 bytes read ends between
> the 2 docg3 planes, and that the first following read (in
> the 12 bytes sequence, read of 16 bit word) returns the byte
> of the rightmost plane duplicated in high and lower byte of
> the word.
> 
> Fix this behaviour by ensuring that if the previous read
> ended up in-between the 2 planes, there will be a first 1
> byte read to get back to the beginning of leftmost plane. 

Um, this seems complex. Wouldn't it be easier just to say "Don't Do That
Then" — always read a multiple of two bytes, even if the caller doesn't
care about the last byte?

-- 
dwmw2
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