RE: [Yaffs] Re: power fail testing

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Author: Thomas Gleixner
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To: Sergei Sharonov
CC: manningc2, yaffs
Subject: RE: [Yaffs] Re: power fail testing
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:37 -0500, Sergei Sharonov wrote:
> > The WP directly controls the internal high voltage charge
> > pump that drives
> > the programming. If WP goes low, the hv will droop and the
> > programming will not complete reliably.
> >
> > In most circuits I am familar with, the WP is strapped to Vcc
> > which would allow in-progress writes to complete.
>
> Well, I just checked schematic and I did hook WP to global reset
> signal, the one that comes from reset generator. Always thought it
> was a good idea ;-)


Even if you cut this line you will have a rare chance of corruption and
the filesystem has to handle it.

tglx