[PATCH] cfi_flash: show progress while during erase

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:50:08AM +0200, Franck Jullien wrote:
> 2014-05-27 7:42 GMT+02:00 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:20:52PM +0200, Franck Jullien wrote:
> >> Sascha,
> >>
> >> Any reason why you removed the progress bar here in this commit:
> >> 2749fbac48374b5f5ced ?
> >
> > The reason was that with the conversion of the cfi driver to mtd the
> > loop over the erase blocks was no longer in the cfi driver but in the
> > mtd layer. So if you see a progress bar for each erased block. You are
> > probably irritated because of this patch which came in later:
> >
> > | commit 0d7ac7c3817e006cc4e258522a989642f1be1538
> > | Author: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > | Date:   Sat May 25 00:16:31 2013 +0200
> > |
> > |     mtd: call mtd_erase with complete area if possible
> > |
> > |     If a device does not have bad blocks loop over the eraseblocks
> > |     in the driver instead of the core. This allows the mtd_dataflash
> > |     driver to erase blocks instead of pages to gain more speed during
> > |     erasing. Also the mtd_dataflash driver modifies the erase_info
> > |     struct which causes the outer loop in the core to never end.
> > |
> > |     Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > |
> > | diff --git a/drivers/mtd/core.c b/drivers/mtd/core.c
> > | index 61744b6..f358098 100644
> > | --- a/drivers/mtd/core.c
> > | +++ b/drivers/mtd/core.c
> > | @@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ static int mtd_op_erase(struct cdev *cdev, size_t count, loff_t offset)
> > |       memset(&erase, 0, sizeof(erase));
> > |       erase.mtd = mtd;
> > |       erase.addr = offset;
> > | +
> > | +     if (!mtd->block_isbad) {
> > | +             erase.len = count;
> > | +             return mtd_erase(mtd, &erase);
> > | +     }
> > | +
> > |       erase.len = mtd->erasesize;
> > |
> > |       while (count > 0) {
> >
> > This moves the eraseblock iteration back into the drivers when the
> > device does not have bad blocks, which is the case for cfi flashes.
> >
> 
> Ok. So brings back the progress bar in the cfi_flash driver is good.
> 
> For NAND devices we could add a progress bar in the mtd core file.
> However, I don't have a nand on my board so I can't test it.

For NAND we don't need a progress bar since the erase operation is very
fast. SPI NOR flashes could benefit from a progress bar though. However,
since the eraseblock looping is in the driver the progress bar must be
implemented there too.

> 
> Now, what would you think if we had a command line option to make
> erase quiet (-q) ?
> By default we would have a progress bar displayed.

I would prefer a -v (verbose) option instead. That would be in line with
the cp command.

Sascha

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