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Date:	Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:41:12 +0800
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Add lock/unlock operations for Atmel AT49BV6416

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:28 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> What's the best way to do this? Unlock the flash in the board-specific
> mapping driver perhaps? 

That's what we used to do. If more people are emulating the Intel brain
damage and having chips which render the lock operation entirely
pointless by locking the chips at every power cycle, then I suppose we
ought to consider making auto-unlock a function of the chip type.

-- 
dwmw2

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