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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtd_debug: report ecc layout
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:03:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313568224.20534.1.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e51a260aa56112648b5413c66d4036e489ae09f7.1312922073.git.bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:57 -0400, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> The mtd_debug 'info' command reports a great deal of useful information about
> the mtd device is it given for a query.
> 
> Add the ECC size and OOB available to that list. The other entries in the
> ecclayout struct are arrays and are not as meaningful as eccsize and oobavail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
> 
> ---
> 
> I noticed that the struct nand_ecclayout_user and its corresponding ioctl
> has been marked deprecated; however, since this is a 'debug' utility and at
> least one person found it useful I thought it would be a good idea to propose
> these changes anyways.

I think we could just kill depricated ioctls as soon as we make
mtd-utils stop using them. If you add this dependency - it will be more
difficult to kill them.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-17  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-09 20:38 [PATCH 0/3] mtd-utils: bit errors in nandtest Ben Gardiner
2011-08-09 20:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] mtd_debug: report ecc layout Ben Gardiner
2011-08-10 17:07   ` Brian Norris
2011-08-10 17:52     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-08-17  8:32     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-17  8:03   ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-08-18 14:01     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-08-22 11:00       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-22 13:11         ` Ben Gardiner
2011-08-09 20:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] nandtest: print number of bits corrected during test Ben Gardiner
2011-08-25 11:00   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-09 20:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] nandtest: report estimated BER Ben Gardiner

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