From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nanddump: add --skipbad option for bad blocks
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:01:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1307358110.3112.36.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307125501-32558-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:25 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> This patch adds a new option "--skipbad" to nanddump. It is subtly
> different than "--omitbad". The following description was included in
> the help message to attempt to clarify the differences.
>
> Notes on --omitbad and --skipbad:
> With either option, we stop dumping data when we encounter a bad block
> and resume dumping at the next good block. However, with --omitbad, we
> count the bad block as part of the total dump length, whereas with
> --skipbad, the bad block is 'skipped,' that is, not counted toward the
> total dump length.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Pushed both to mtd-utils.git, thank you!
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-03 18:25 [PATCH 1/2] nanddump: add --skipbad option for bad blocks Brian Norris
2011-06-03 18:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] nanddump: sort options in help message alphabetically by shortname Brian Norris
2011-06-06 11:01 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
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