DOC / NFTL problem, and fix

[Wolfgang Denk]

Hi,

I noticed a problem when trying to initialize a DOC  device  like  an
ordinary  harddisk,  i. e. when trying to run a command sequence like
this one:

	bash# eraseall /dev/mtdchar0
	bash# nftl_format /dev/mtdchar0 0x00300000
	bash# fdisk /dev/nftla
	(create partitions, and write partition table)
	bash# reboot

Usually the DOC would be unusable after this, with no valid partition
table at all. Depending on the timing it would sometimes work - if  I
add a long delay before the "reboot", it works.


It turns out that some internal data structures of the  NFTL  driver,
which are initialized only at boot-time, become invalid after you run
nftl_format.

To fix this issue, we added an IOCTL  command  to  the  NFTL  driver,
which would instruct the driver to re-read appropriate meta-data from
the  DOC  device.  Nftl_format was modified to invoke this command to
accomplish its operation.

Patch attached.

Wolfgang Denk

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