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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c index 14d890b00d2c..2f3312c31e51 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c @@ -535,7 +535,14 @@ int ubi_io_sync_erase(struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum, int torture) return -EROFS; } - if (ubi->nor_flash) { + /* + * If the flash is ECC-ed then we have to erase the ECC block before we + * can write to it. But the write is in preparation to an erase in the + * first place. This means we cannot zero out EC and VID before the + * erase and we just have to hope the flash starts erasing from the + * start of the page. + */ + if (ubi->nor_flash && ubi->mtd->writesize == 1) { err = nor_erase_prepare(ubi, pnum); if (err) return err; |