The patch titled MTD: fix startup lock when using multiple nor flash chips has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mtd-fix-startup-lock-when-using-multiple-nor-flash-chips.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: MTD: fix startup lock when using multiple nor flash chips From: Rizzo Davide <davide@xxxxxxx> Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9829 I found and solved the problem, at line 115 of drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c (kernel 2.6.24): mapsize value must be calculated in bytes, not in long. Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c~mtd-fix-startup-lock-when-using-multiple-nor-flash-chips drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c~mtd-fix-startup-lock-when-using-multiple-nor-flash-chips +++ a/drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static struct cfi_private *genprobe_iden max_chips = 1; } - mapsize = (max_chips + BITS_PER_LONG-1) / BITS_PER_LONG; + mapsize = sizeof(long) * ( (max_chips + BITS_PER_LONG-1) / BITS_PER_LONG ); chip_map = kzalloc(mapsize, GFP_KERNEL); if (!chip_map) { printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: kmalloc failed for CFI chip map\n", map->name); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from davide@xxxxxxx are mtd-fix-startup-lock-when-using-multiple-nor-flash-chips.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html