Re: [PATCH] mtd: cfi: Fixed endless loop problem in CFI when value was written but corrupted.

[Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 08:33 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
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> On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 00:32 +0000, Przemyslaw Sobon wrote:
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> > There was an endless loop in CFI Flash driver when a value was written
> > incorrectly. In such case chip_ready returns true but chip_good returns
> > false and we never get out of the loop.
> > 
> > The solution was to break the loop in 2 cases, either device is ready or
> > device is not ready and timeout elapsed. The correctness of the write is
> > checked after the loop ended. That way we ensure the loop always ends.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Sobon <psobon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> hmm, current code was introduced by Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to address another problem he had.

Seems like Tokunori Ikegami's email address is invalid now ...
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