[PATCH 2/2] drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c: Fix whole device erase

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 18:19 +0200, Cédric Cano wrote:
> From: Cédric Cano <ccano at interfaceconcept.com>
> 
> There are two ways to erase SPI Flash devices: sector per sector or the 
> entire Flash (used when MTD partition is the whole Flash).
> 
> When the whole Flash is erased, the SPI command is sent to the device 
> and the erase function ends. Then, when another access (read, write or 
> erase) is done, a  wait of busy is performed that fails because of Flash 
> erase time (can be more than 30s in case of whole erase).
> 
> This patch removes chip erase and use only sector per sector erase to 
> erase the chip. When erase is performed, Flash accesses can be done.

Please, re-send the patch with a better commit message which not only
explains _what_ you do, but also _why_ you do this, which problem you
solve, and what is the impact of the patch.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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