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

Ben Gardiner bengardiner at nanometrics.ca
Mon Aug 30 22:30:06 CEST 2010


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:59:13 -0400
> Ben Gardiner <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>> > On 08/27/2010 04:46 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> >> For now, I guess don't worry about sharing the code.
>> >
>> > Plus, I've got some changes to the NAND command/util code I'm about to send
>> > out that touch this -- if sharing is going to be a pain, I can go back to
>> > the version that only passes back "fits with bad blocks", "fits with no bad
>> > blocks", or "doesn't fit", and doesn't deal with 64-bit sizes because it's
>> > only used by read/write which is limited by pointer size.  That simpler
>> > version is 128 bytes smaller in my build.
>>
>> I imagine you don't have to go back.
>
> I already did; it's smaller and slightly simpler for what it currently
> needs to do.  It would still be easy to switch to using the MTD
> function later.

Ok, no problem. If you're interested in taking this series through the
nand-testing tree I would be happy to rebase this series and integrate
with your MTD changes.

Best Regards,
Ben Gardiner

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