From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Daid <daid303@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd-utils: "flash_erase -j" failes with "unable to get NAND oobinfo" on large flash chips.
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:09:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302761383.2796.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinozqCrqaDGsAX-gWWUg2G3bvg_Rg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:58 +0200, Daid wrote:
> I've made a patch to fix flash_erase with large flash chips.
> flash_erase uses MEMGETOOBSEL which no longer works if the ECC area is
> larger then 32 bytes. ECCGETLAYOUT is the replacement ioctl.
>
> This patch is based on the work of Stanley Miao, he made a patch in
> June 2010 for flash_eraseall.
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2010-June/031981.html
> I've implemented the backwards compatibility differently, checking
> kernel versions doesn't feel correct.
Hi Daid, would you please use libmtd instead? If libmtd does not have
some functionality you need - just add it there.
The thing is that we are trying to unify this stuff a little.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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2011-04-12 9:58 mtd-utils: "flash_erase -j" failes with "unable to get NAND oobinfo" on large flash chips Daid
2011-04-14 6:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-04-14 11:43 ` Daid
2011-04-14 14:12 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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2011-04-21 12:55 ` Fwd: " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-21 12:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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