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

[Hugo Villeneuve]

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 :)

Hugo V.


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