[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 3/4] mtdparts: add new sub-command "spread"

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 08/27/2010 04:46 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 04:36 PM, Ben Gardiner wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Ben Gardiner
>> <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca> wrote:
>> I have performed a refactoring but I have reached an impasse: the
>> 'mtdparts spread' command is written for mtd devices whereas the
>> get_len_incl_bad() function is for NAND devices. I extracted a
>> function, mtd_get_len_incl_bad(), to which both the spread_partition
>> and nand_utils.c:get_len_incl_bad() function then delegated.
>
> I figured the NAND code could just call the MTD-ized get_len_incl_bad()
> directly.
>
>> But since a board may have NAND enabled but not MTD_DEVICE (i.e.
>> guruplug) I get
>> link errors sometimes.
>
> Grr... Eventually we ought to make NAND depend on MTD_DEVICE. It's 808
> bytes currently in my build, but if we could get rid of/reduce
> specialized client code, it could more than make up for it.
>
> For now, I guess don't worry about sharing the code.

Plus, I've got some changes to the NAND command/util code I'm about to 
send out that touch this -- if sharing is going to be a pain, I can go 
back to the version that only passes back "fits with bad blocks", "fits 
with no bad blocks", or "doesn't fit", and doesn't deal with 64-bit 
sizes because it's only used by read/write which is limited by pointer 
size.  That simpler version is 128 bytes smaller in my build.

-Scott