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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 10:37:04 +0200
From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
To: xiaolei li <xiaolei.li@mediatek.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] libmtd: Add support to access OOB available size
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:33:11 +0800
xiaolei li <xiaolei.li@mediatek.com> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 09:35 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:25:39 +0800
> > xiaolei li <xiaolei.li@mediatek.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi David,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 08:58 +0200, David Oberhollenzer wrote:  
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On 04/09/2018 05:10 AM, Xiaolei Li wrote:    
> > > > > @@ -769,6 +774,8 @@ int mtd_get_dev_info1(libmtd_t desc, int mtd_num, struct mtd_dev_info *mtd)
> > > > >  		return -1;
> > > > >  	if (dev_read_pos_int(lib->mtd_oob_size, mtd_num, &mtd->oob_size))
> > > > >  		return -1;
> > > > > +	if (dev_read_pos_int(lib->mtd_oobavail, mtd_num, &mtd->oobavail))
> > > > > +		return -1;
> > > > >  	if (dev_read_pos_int(lib->mtd_region_cnt, mtd_num, &mtd->region_cnt))
> > > > >  		return -1;
> > > > >  	if (dev_read_hex_int(lib->mtd_flags, mtd_num, &ret))    
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure if it is a good idea to do a hard fail here, since this
> > > > depends on a recent change to the kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > It might be preferable to catch and handle ENOENT, otherwise the next
> > > > release of mtd-utils will only work on the next kernel release onward.
> > > >     
> > > Yes, it is. The hard fail return here seems not good.
> > >   
> > > > Maybe mtd_oobavail could to be set to some reasonable default that
> > > > retains the current behaviour on "older" kernels?
> > > >     
> > > What about setting 0 as default?  
> > 
> > I didn't look closely at the code yet, but shouldn't we do something
> > like:
> > 
> > 1/ search for oobavail file in sysfs
> > 2/ if it's not there use the GETOOBSEL or GETECCLAYOUT ioctl to get
> >    this information  
> MEMGETOOBSEL and GETECCLAYOUT are obsoleted. Should we keep using them
> here?

Yes we should, otherwise old kernels won't work with new versions of
mtd-utils.