[U-Boot] [PATCH] update nand.h to support address more than 0x80000000

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Scott Wood,

In message <20090602201923.GA4549 at b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:27:01PM +0800, adrian wen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I found a bug in nand.h which prevent UBOOT to supprt large NAND chip.
> > 
> > The bug description as below:
> > In the original implementation, we use a wrapper function in
> > nand.h to facilitate nand_base function usage in other files,
> > like cmd_nand.c, nand_util.c etc.
> > 
> > However, the wrapper in nand.h is using off_t which is long type.
> > If we pass a address like 0x80000000, which is allowed by nand_base.c,
> > the wrapper would recognize it as a negative num. So we would get a
> > huge num when this parameter get into nand_base.c
> > 
> > Fix it by replacing off_t to loff_t type.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lei Wen <leiwen at marvell.com>
> 
> A substantially similar patch was posted here:
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-May/052847.html
> 
> I'm fine with this change, but it should also handle large erases.

What happened out of this? I see a question asked by Adrian, but I
cannot find a reply from you?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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