Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:32:35 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] let arm use drivers/Kconfig |
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On Thu, 20 April 2006 21:54:11 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:06 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This dependency is incorrect. It's only one or two chip-specific drivers > > > which require that the architecture correctly handle alignment traps, > > > and even then it's only actually apparent when used with JFFS2 which > > > actually _gives_ it an unaligned buffer occasionally. Everything else > > > works fine. > > > > Can anyone tell me which chip-specific drivers are affected by this > > issue so that I can send a patch? > > Disabling those chip drivers isn't necessarily the answer, since they > can still be used in most cases; just not for JFFS2. Perhaps we should > just disable JFFS2 if BROKEN_UNALIGNED is set -- or disable JFFS2 on NOR > flash if it's set.
mtd->flags would be a good place for that. Unlike many other things previously in there, it is a device property that matters.
Jörn
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