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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] [v2] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:23:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pqn8teq0.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f4c5335ba60c7a41055d7069d92bbc46a5f8366.1305823168.git.bengardiner@nanometrics.ca> (Ben Gardiner's message of "Thu, 19 May 2011 12:49:24 -0400")

Hi Ben,

> Add a flag to nand_read_skip_bad() such that if true, any trailing
> pages in an eraseblock whose contents are entirely 0xff will be
> dropped.
>
> The implementation is via a new drop_ffs() function which is
> based on the function of the same name from the ubiformat
> utility by Artem Bityutskiy.
>
> This is as-per the reccomendations of the UBI FAQ [1]
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>

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

Cheers
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19 16:49 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/4] introduce nand write.trimffs Ben Gardiner
2011-05-19 16:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] [v2] nand_base: trivial: fix comment read/write comment Ben Gardiner
2011-05-24 12:36   ` Detlev Zundel
2011-05-19 16:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] [v2] nand_util: convert nand_write_skip_bad() to flags Ben Gardiner
2011-05-24 13:17   ` Detlev Zundel
2011-05-24 13:27     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-05-19 16:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] [v2] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested Ben Gardiner
2011-05-24 13:23   ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2011-05-19 16:49 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] [v2] cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command Ben Gardiner
2011-05-24 13:22   ` Detlev Zundel
2011-05-24 13:30     ` Ben Gardiner

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