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    Redundant Environment: protect full sector size · dfcd7f21
    Wolfgang Denk authored
    
    
    Several boards used different ways to specify the size of the
    protected area when enabling flash write protection for the sectors
    holding the environment variables: some used CONFIG_ENV_SIZE and
    CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND, some used CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, and some even
    a mix of both for the "normal" and the "redundant" areas.
    
    Normally, this makes no difference at all. However, things are
    different when you have to deal with boards that can come with
    different types of flash chips, which may have different sector
    sizes.
    
    Here we may have to chose CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE such that it fits the
    biggest sector size, which may include several sectors on boards using
    the smaller sector flash types. In such a case, using CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
    or CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND to enable the protection may lead to the
    case that only the first of these sectors get protected, while the
    following ones aren't.
    
    This is no real problem, but it can be confusing for the user -
    especially on boards that use CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE to protect the
    "normal" areas, while using CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND for the
    "redundant" area.
    
    To avoid such inconsistencies, I changed all sucn boards that I found
    to consistently use CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE for protection. This should
    not cause any functional changes to the code.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
    Cc: Paul Ruhland
    Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
    Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
    Cc: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@denx.de>
    Cc: Dave Ellis <DGE@sixnetio.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarStefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
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