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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/* This is a hack for Rockchip rk3x based devices. The problem is that
+ * the MEMERASE ioctl is failing (hangs and never returns) in their kernel.
+ * The sources are not fully available, so fixing it in the rk30xxnand_ko driver
+ * is not possible.
+ *
+ * I straced the stock recovery application and it seems to avoid this
+ * particular ioctl, instead it is simply writing zeroes using the write() call.
+ *
+ * This workaround does the same and will replace all MEMERASE occurances in
+ * the recovery code.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __RK3X_HACK_H__
+#define __RK3X_HACK_H__
+
+#include <sys/types.h>  // for size_t, etc.
+
+// write zeroes to fd at position pos
+int zero_out(int fd, off_t pos, ssize_t length);
+
+#endif//__RK3X_HACK_H__