[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Fix NAND erase progress error

Scott Wood
2008-05-16T20:43:59Z

Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
>> Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
>>> I would be perfectly happy if the mtd driver reported a warning when
>>> the requested erase size is not an exact multiple of the block size,
>>> and allow the whole block erase to proceed. Then my patch would make
>>> sense.
>> That's what the mtd-2.6.22.1 branch in the NAND repository does. I
>> think it should reject such requests, though.
>
> I don?t like that behavior. Let?s say that I want to program a new
> binary application of 2.8MB. I want to be able to simply erase 2.8MB,
> without having to do fancy math computations on my calculator based
> on the block size :)

Hmm... maybe a flag to request round-up? Or at the very least, have
"help nand" mention the rounding-up behavior.

-Scott