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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: flash_eraseall reports incorrect percentage
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:51:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1227261098.3954.49.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081118185652.GA32157@michl.2n.cz>

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:56 +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:03:13PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > It seems that the flash_eraseall utility doesn't report the correct percentage 
> > upon completion. After erasing the last sector, the output seems not to get 
> > updated anymore. This leads to something like this on a partition with only 2 
> > sectors:
> > 
> > flash_eraseall /dev/mtd6
> > Erasing 256 Kibyte @ 40000 -- 50 % complete.
> > 
> > I'm just posting this report as a reference. Perhaps somebody has a little 
> > time to fix it.
> 
> Well, I sacrificed a little time otherwise used to prepare supper, but
> fridge is emty...
> 
> # flash_eraseall /dev/mtd4
> Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 2800000 -- 100 % complete.
> 
> flash_eraseall
>  * fix percentage reporting
>  * exit()ing from main() is overkill, just return
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>


It seems others are busy, so I took a look at this. I think the patch is
OK, pushed to mtd-utils.git.

Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-21  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30 13:03 flash_eraseall reports incorrect percentage Stefan Roese
2008-11-18 18:56 ` Ladislav Michl
2008-11-21  9:51   ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2008-11-21 11:22     ` Josh Boyer

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