From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] [v3] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:43:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24o4gsclz.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ea56396c07f0fcb92175e7303f4bbda23724a00.1306246651.git.bengardiner@nanometrics.ca> (Ben Gardiner's message of "Tue, 24 May 2011 10:18:36 -0400")
Hi Ben,
> Add a flag to nand_read_skip_bad() such that if true, any trailing
> pages in an eraseblock whose contents are entirely 0xff will be
> dropped.
>
> The implementation is via a new drop_ffs() function which is
> based on the function of the same name from the ubiformat
> utility by Artem Bityutskiy.
>
> This is as-per the reccomendations of the UBI FAQ [1]
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
> CC: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
>
> [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo
Looks good -
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Cheers
Detlev
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-27 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 14:18 [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/4] introduce nand write.trimffs Ben Gardiner
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] [v3] nand_base: trivial: fix comment read/write comment Ben Gardiner
2011-06-06 21:32 ` Scott Wood
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] [v3] nand_util: convert nand_write_skip_bad() to flags Ben Gardiner
2011-06-06 21:32 ` Scott Wood
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] [v3] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested Ben Gardiner
2011-05-27 9:43 ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2011-06-06 20:58 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-07 13:09 ` Ben Gardiner
2011-06-07 16:34 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-14 20:35 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/3] introduce nand write.trimffs Ben Gardiner
2011-06-14 20:35 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] [v4] nand_util: treat WITH_YAFFS_OOB as a mode Ben Gardiner
2011-06-14 20:35 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] [v4] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested Ben Gardiner
2011-06-14 20:35 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] [v4] cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command Ben Gardiner
2011-06-15 23:05 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/3] introduce nand write.trimffs Scott Wood
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] [v3] cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command Ben Gardiner
2011-05-27 9:41 ` Detlev Zundel
2011-06-06 21:00 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-07 13:09 ` Ben Gardiner
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