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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:26:32 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mtd: Update MTD infrastructure to support
	64bit device size
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On Monday 22 June 2009 20:50:30 Scott Wood wrote:
> Dirk Behme wrote:
> > Because every non-U-Boot expert who just downloads recent git and
> > compiles it will get the warning and will wonder if something is wrong
> > or not. So yes, the check doesn't hurt, but the warning might confuse
> > the users, which are non-experts.
>
> And the answer to that user is that something *is* wrong, and should be
> reported to the board maintainer so they can enable 64-bit printf.

Ack.

> >> We could get rid of it of course if we would enable this 64bit printf
> >> format on all platforms and removed this option completely. This would
> >> cost a bit of image size but would make things easier/simpler. Just my
> >> 0.02$...
>
> Agreed.  Or once we get kconfig we can have it be selected by any code
> that requires it.

Good idea. Thanks Scott.

Best regards,
Stefan

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