[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] [v3] cmd_nand: add nand write.trimffs command

Detlev Zundel dzu at denx.de
Fri May 27 11:41:56 CEST 2011


Hi Ben,

> Add another nand write. variant, trimffs. This command will request of
> nand_write_skip_bad() that all trailing all-0xff pages will be
> dropped from eraseblocks when they are written to flash as-per the
> reccommended behaviour of the UBI FAQ [1].
>
> The function that implements this timming is the drop_ffs() function
> by Artem Bityutskiy, ported from the mtd-utils tree.
>
> [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca>
> CC: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com>
> CC: Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de>

Thanks - looks good now.

Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de>

Cheers
  Detlev

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