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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] [v3] cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:41:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28vtsscnv.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9a94a1f4b1aadc2a94821cf4148d6bf4273758f.1306246651.git.bengardiner@nanometrics.ca> (Ben Gardiner's message of "Tue, 24 May 2011 10:18:37 -0400")

Hi Ben,

> Add another nand write. variant, trimffs. This command will request of
> nand_write_skip_bad() that all trailing all-0xff pages will be
> dropped from eraseblocks when they are written to flash as-per the
> reccommended behaviour of the UBI FAQ [1].
>
> The function that implements this timming is the drop_ffs() function
> by Artem Bityutskiy, ported from the mtd-utils tree.
>
> [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
> CC: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>

Thanks - looks good now.

Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>

Cheers
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-27  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 14:18 [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/4] introduce nand write.trimffs Ben Gardiner
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] [v3] nand_base: trivial: fix comment read/write comment Ben Gardiner
2011-06-06 21:32   ` Scott Wood
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] [v3] nand_util: convert nand_write_skip_bad() to flags Ben Gardiner
2011-06-06 21:32   ` Scott Wood
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] [v3] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested Ben Gardiner
2011-05-27  9:43   ` Detlev Zundel
2011-06-06 20:58   ` Scott Wood
2011-06-07 13:09     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-06-07 16:34       ` Scott Wood
2011-06-14 20:35         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/3] introduce nand write.trimffs Ben Gardiner
2011-06-14 20:35           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] [v4] nand_util: treat WITH_YAFFS_OOB as a mode Ben Gardiner
2011-06-14 20:35           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] [v4] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested Ben Gardiner
2011-06-14 20:35           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] [v4] cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command Ben Gardiner
2011-06-15 23:05           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/3] introduce nand write.trimffs Scott Wood
2011-05-24 14:18 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] [v3] cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command Ben Gardiner
2011-05-27  9:41   ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2011-06-06 21:00   ` Scott Wood
2011-06-07 13:09     ` Ben Gardiner

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