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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Darwin Rambo <drambo@broadcom.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Ubiformat --erase-counter not always used
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:41:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259228464.29118.60.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B125D8217ABC4B43826503DE00A2D44910DF852EF3@SJEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:57 -0800, Darwin Rambo wrote:
> Hello Artem, 
> 
> This is not a bug report, just an observation on ubiformat. It only seems to take the --erase-counter parameter in certain situations. If you have alien data it seems to take it. If the blocks are FF erased or previously formatted correctly it seems to ignore the --erase-counter argument, even though it says it is using it (see below).
> 
> Should we add something in the online help or documentation to explain this better and maybe say in the ubiformat tool itself when the switch is getting used or ignored and why?

Should be fixed in the mtd-utils repository now, thanks.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-17 22:45 [patch 4/4] mtd/nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem akpm
2009-11-23 15:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-23 18:57   ` Ubiformat --erase-counter not always used Darwin Rambo
2009-11-24  6:57     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-26  9:41     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-11-23 20:24   ` [patch 4/4] mtd/nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem Andrew Morton

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