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Subject: Re: mtd-utils/flash_erase modifications
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com>
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Hello Ricard,

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:30 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> 1.
> Looking at the mtd-utils/flash_erase application (mtd-utils 1.0.1), and=20
> considering its use for nand flashes, there is no bad block management,
> i.e. if flash_erase hits a bad block, it exits with an error message.
> I would like to see (perhaps governed by an option) that it simply
> skips bad blocks.

Never used this utility, but granted you are saying the truth, you are
obviously right :-))

> 2.
> Furthermore, it would be nice to be able to disable the output of the=20
> program. As it stands, it outputs a line for each block/sector it erases.=
=20
> I would suggest a --verbose or -v option in order to enable this output.

Err, are you talking about flash_erase?

> 3.
> And finally, by default, the program only erases the first block, unless=20
> some options are given. If one wants to erase a whole mtd device or=20
> partition, the number of blocks must be known and given to flash_erase. I=
t=20
> would be nice to have a default behavior, or perhaps using an option for=20
> backwards compatibility's sake, to simply erase the whole device.

There is flash_eraseall utility for this, isn't it? Although it may be
reasonable to have all this functionality in one utility/

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)