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From: "Jeff Lauruhn (jlauruhn)" <jlauruhn@micron.com>
To: Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com>, Iwo Mergler
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Subject: RE: RFC: detect and manage power cut on MLC NAND
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:57:25 +0000
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