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| author | juhosg <juhosg@3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73> | 2011-12-13 20:41:22 +0000 |
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| committer | juhosg <juhosg@3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73> | 2011-12-13 20:41:22 +0000 |
| commit | 05535c276603ee7af4d8ce66a314b96bf32086d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 369281011018133764e0cd8c8c6430b1a1a8b0d9 /target/linux/generic/patches-3.1/476-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-disable-small-sector-erase.patch | |
| parent | bc53008b155b6a834c2a617de91332b6e113a2c3 (diff) | |
generic: disable 'small sector' erase in m25p80 driver
This fixes the issues with the jffs2 images on various boards. Using
JFFS2 on devices with 4KiB erase sectors is not safe:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-June/036591.html
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@29521 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
Diffstat (limited to 'target/linux/generic/patches-3.1/476-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-disable-small-sector-erase.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | target/linux/generic/patches-3.1/476-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-disable-small-sector-erase.patch | 41 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.1/476-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-disable-small-sector-erase.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.1/476-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-disable-small-sector-erase.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cc78d91f63 --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.1/476-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-disable-small-sector-erase.patch @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig ++++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig +@@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ config M25PXX_USE_FAST_READ + help + This option enables FAST_READ access supported by ST M25Pxx. + ++config M25PXX_PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE ++ bool "Prefer small sector erase" ++ depends on MTD_M25P80 ++ default y ++ help ++ This option enables use of the small erase sectors if that is ++ supported by the flash chip. ++ + config MTD_SST25L + tristate "Support SST25L (non JEDEC) SPI Flash chips" + depends on SPI_MASTER +--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c ++++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c +@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ + + #define JEDEC_MFR(_jedec_id) ((_jedec_id) >> 16) + ++#ifdef CONFIG_M25PXX_PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE ++#define PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE 1 ++#else ++#define PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE 0 ++#endif ++ + /****************************************************************************/ + + struct m25p { +@@ -924,7 +930,7 @@ static int __devinit m25p_probe(struct s + flash->mtd.write = m25p80_write; + + /* prefer "small sector" erase if possible */ +- if (info->flags & SECT_4K) { ++ if (PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE && (info->flags & SECT_4K)) { + flash->erase_opcode = OPCODE_BE_4K; + flash->mtd.erasesize = 4096; + } else if (info->flags & SECT_4K_PMC) { |