[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] Support NAND in fw_printenv/fw_setenv

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Guennadi Liakhovetski,

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809011028550.4686 at axis700.grange> you wrote:
> 
> 1. do not use the union
> 
> well, I would still prefer to use it and I hope I will be allowed to do so 
> in a separate NAND-tool. I agree, it would be better to use the definition 
> from the environment.h directly. But:

There is no such thing as a separate NAND tool - this mkes zero sense.
There shall be one tool that supports both NOR and NAND (and soon
probably DataFlash and OneNAND and ... ).

> 2. do not use single.crc in redundant case
> 
> This is done only at two places, yes, I realise, this is not very clean, 

Indeed. But the problem goes away automatically whenyou get rid of the
union.

> 4. fix MTD_OLD
> 
> Would we still need this with NAND-only tool?

Yes of course we need it. I will not accept such thing as a NAND-only tool.

> 5. clarify back-up mode
> 
> This is actually a comment improvement, can do.

Actually the whole implementation needs to be explained.

> Shall I keep support for NOR in the separate NAND version or completely 
> remove it? The "type == MTD_NORFLASH" code is quite small, so, removing it 

I don't understand why you come up with such an idea. There shall  be
just  the  one  tool we have now, just with extended functionality. I
just wanted to get rid of the futile attempts to make  the  one  huge
change looking like a series af several big but incremental changes.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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