#104: flashrom: Partial operations; change flash drivers to not erase in the write function -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: stuge | Owner: hailfinger Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: flashrom v1.0 Component: flashrom | Version: Keywords: partial erase write | Dependencies: Patchstatus: there is no patch | -----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
Comment(by stuge):
I could ack the patch since it just adds a function, but the function doesn't fix this ticket.
This ticket is about changing write functions in drivers to never erase. (Ie. move erasing out of the driver write functions.)
Once that's done (if already, then this could be closed as fixed) the next step is how to decide when to erase. It used to be always. Patch 582 suggest a heuristic, but I don't think this is wise, since code can not know what has happened to the flash chip before. I suggest that this decision must be made by the user.