[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 3/4] mtdparts: add new sub-command "spread"

[Ben Gardiner]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 04:36 PM, Ben Gardiner wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Ben Gardiner
>> <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca>  wrote:
>> But since a board may have NAND enabled but not MTD_DEVICE (i.e. guruplug)
>> I get
>> link errors sometimes.
>
> Grr... Eventually we ought to make NAND depend on MTD_DEVICE.  It's 808
> bytes currently in my build, but if we could get rid of/reduce specialized
> client code, it could more than make up for it.
>
> For now, I guess don't worry about sharing the code.

Ok -- thanks, Scott. I'll re-spin on Monday.

>> ATM I'm thinking of leaving the original
>> implementation of get_len_incl_bad in an #else. An alternative is to
>> move 'mtdparts spread' to 'nand mtdparts.spread' -- only OneNAND and
>> NAND devices (currently) have bad_block functions.
>
> There's too much duplication between NAND and OneNAND as is; I'd rather do
> it at the MTD layer.

Whew -- I'm glad I don't have to migrate all of the patches to new files. :)

Best Regards,
Ben Gardiner

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