[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] NAND: Add scrub.quiet command option

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 20:50:36 CEST 2011


On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:37:47 PM Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Marek Vasut,
> 
> In message <201109121945.17407.marek.vasut at gmail.com> you wrote:
> > On Monday, September 12, 2011 06:45:43 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Monday, September 12, 2011 00:04:10 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > This allows the scrub command to scrub without asking the user if he
> > > > really wants to scrub the area. Useful in scripts.
> > > 
> > > "quiet" and "skip user input" are two different things.  can you use a
> > > more clean option like accepting "-y" to the "scrub" subcommand ?
> > 
> > I'd prefer to have this hidden from common users as much as possible.
> 
> This is probably well-intentioned, but keep in mind old (and good!)
> Unix rules like:
> 
> "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things,  because
> that would also stop you from doing clever things."       - Doug Gwyn
> 
> Don't try hiding stuff - others might find it useful.

You can use the usual scrub command, noone is preventing you from anything.

Using this kind of a scrub.quiet command is really an arguable practice.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk


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