Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] prepare new nanddump options, defaults

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 09:49 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think this should be the last version necessary for this particular patch
> series...
> 
> This series adds, changes, and deprecates several nanddump options, helping make
> nanddump a closer inverse to nandwrite. This is mostly a preparation for the
> next release, when several defaults might change. A short list of the planned
> changes:
> 
>  * unify bad block methods under `--bb=METHOD', deprecating old ones
>  * kill --omitbad in favor of --bb=skipbad
>  * skip bad blocks by default (i.e., --bb=skipbad)
>  * do not dump OOB by default (--omitoob)
>  * add `--oob' to force dumping OOB
> 
> Please let me know when these are accepted and the 1.4.5 release is made, so I
> can send a proper patchset to clean this all up as planned for the 1.4.6
> release.

Pushed, thank you!

> BTW, is each utility supposed to have its own version? (e.g., nanddump has
> version 1.30?) Should these versions be kept in any kind of sync with the
> mtd-utils revision tags? And does Artem take care of this stuff?

Actually no, I do not take care of this and this is messy. Probably it
would be easier if all utils had the same version as the release...

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy