From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QaAlZ-0000lj-0g for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:06:05 +0000 From: "Brian Norris" To: "Artem Bityutskiy" Subject: [PATCH 5/6] feature-removal: remove completed tasks Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:03:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1308938594-20486-6-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1308938594-20486-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> References: <1308938594-20486-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Mike Frysinger List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Signed-off-by: Brian Norris --- feature-removal-schedule.txt | 37 ------------------------------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 338bc08..a5980f7 100644 --- a/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -40,40 +40,3 @@ This is duplicating behavior with the mtdinfo utility. Now the util warns when people use it, but it'll be removed in release 1.4.6. --------------------------- - -4. Rename --noskipbad option, kill --omitbad, change default BB method for nanddump - -Our bad block handling methods are getting disorganized. They will be replaced -by a series of --bb=METHOD options (see `nanddump --help'). - -In addition, the previous default bad block behavior was to dump 0xFF in place -of bad blocks. This was not a good "inverse operation" of nandwrite. Thus, the -current default behavior has become the (new) option --bb=padbad, and in 1.4.6, -the default will be --bb=skipbad. - -The new `--bb=METHOD' options are included in this release, but all feature -removals and changed defaults will occur in 1.4.6. For now, there are -appropriate deprecation warning messages and an alert telling about the -soon-to-be-default settings. - -Transition summary table: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Old option New option Comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --bb=padbad dump flash data, substituting 0xFF for any bad blocks - --noskipbad --bb=dumpbad dump flash data, including any bad blocks - --skipbad --bb=skipbad, dump good data, completely skipping any bad blocks (new default) - --omitbad N/A very similar to `skipbad', will be removed soon - ---------------------------- - -5. nanddump will not dump OOB by default - -In 1.4.6, nanddump will not dump OOB by default. To dump OOB, you will have to -explicitly use the option `--oob'. For now, there is simply a warning every -time you use nanddump without explicitly choosing `--oob' or `--omitoob'. - -Note that `-o' will no longer stand for `--omitoob'. To unify with nandwrite, -it will stand for `--oob' (Dump OOB data). - ---------------------------- -- 1.7.0.4