From 45c01cae72a0b8115d938e419dc679740328296d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:29:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add jffs2_mark_erase function for erasing jffs2 partitions on
 the next mount (typically faster than doing mtd erase manually)

SVN-Revision: 6978
---
 package/base-files/files/etc/functions.sh | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/functions.sh b/package/base-files/files/etc/functions.sh
index dac46a3497..86ea82de67 100755
--- a/package/base-files/files/etc/functions.sh
+++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/functions.sh
@@ -186,3 +186,13 @@ strtok() { # <string> { <variable> [<separator>] ... }
 
 	return $count
 }
+
+
+jffs2_mark_erase() {
+	local part="$(find_mtd_part "$1")"
+	[ -z "$part" ] && {
+		echo Partition not found.
+		return 1
+	}
+	echo -e "\xde\xad\xc0\xde" | mtd -qq write - "$1"
+}