Openwrt/target/linux/generic/patches-2.6.39/475-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-disable-small-sector-erase.patch
Gabor Juhos 5afedc67e2 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

SVN-Revision: 29521
2011-12-13 20:41:22 +00:00

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--- 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
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@
#define FAST_READ_DUMMY_BYTE 0
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_M25PXX_PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE
+#define PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE 1
+#else
+#define PREFER_SMALL_SECTOR_ERASE 0
+#endif
+
/****************************************************************************/
struct m25p {
@@ -902,7 +908,7 @@ 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) {