Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: print erase size on init

[Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>]

On 10/30/2014 09:35 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 30 October 2014 08:33, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 19:48 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>>> Moreover, you have a /proc and a /sysfs interface to retrieve the erasesize:
>>>
>>> What's wrong with using any of the currently available interfaces:
>>>
>>> $ cat /sys/class/mtd/mtd0/erasesize
>>> 131072
>>>
>>> $ cat /proc/mtd | grep mtd0 | awk '{print $3}'
>>> 00020000
>>>
>>> Any reason why you want the info in the kernel log?
>>
>> When people ask for help and send their logs, it is very handy to have
>> this information there.
> 
> Oops, forgot to reply. There are two reasons for this:
> 1) It's easier to get erasesize from users/reporters when it simply
> appears in the boot log.
> 2) If user space breaks (e.g. because of wrong UBI image) we can't use
> "cat" to read the erasesize
> 

Hm.. OK. Those sound like good reasons.
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Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
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