Patch attached. > For any of you who are using flash with the cfi driver, this may be of > your > interrest: > > When using the cfi (common flash interface) driver, every word written to > the flash chips is followed by a operation complete poll. This poll is > intended to have a timeout of 1 ms. However this timeout is calculated by > HZ/1000, which happends to be 0 because HZ < 1000. The result of this is > that there will be just one poll for operation complete. If this single > poll > fails, the kernel panics. I have not had the time to investigate this > panic > further. Instead, I have made a workaround that increases this timeout to > HZ > (1 second). 1 second is far more than needed, but is preferred over a > panic. > > The patch is available at http://www.jp-embedded.com.
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