[Skiboot] [PATCH v2 3/3] libflash/file: Use 64bit ioctl() to erase from MTD

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Tue Nov 8 17:19:06 AEDT 2016


On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> While we'll 'never' have flash chips larger than 32bit, work was
> recently done to blocklevel for it to be 64bit compatible for other
> backends.
>
> Since there is a 64bit ioctl() lets use it. There is currently no known
> case where 32bit is not sufficient but this doesn't mean someone might
> not do something strange in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>


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