[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] [v3] nand_util: drop trailing all-0xff pages if requested

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jun 7 18:34:05 CEST 2011


On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:09:07 -0400
Ben Gardiner <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca> wrote:

> > Why not call drop_ffs before this point?
> 
> To achieve the desired effect, drop_ffs must be called on each
> eraseblock sized chunk being written; so it seemed the simplest way
> was to force a block-by-block pass with the !WITH_DROP_FFS to enter

Ah, I missed that it was within each erase block.

> In v4 I will add a -EINVAL if WITH_YAFFS_OOB flag is used with any other flag.

OK, I just didn't want it silently ignored, with no documentation of the
limitation.

-Scott



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