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From: "Christopher Hoover" <ch@murgatroid.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 13/22] remove erase regions
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>>From J=F6rn Engel -
> I see absolutely no reason for complicated erase reagions.  On the
> user side, everyone but mtdchar effectively ignores it anyway.

I don't grok this.   What about flash with variable-sized blocks?  (I =
have a
board with such flash and code that uses eraseregions.)

-ch