[PATCH][MTD] Add COMPATIBLE_IOCTL() for MEMGETOOBSEL

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 10:12:26 EDT 2007


On 7/13/07, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at plexity.net> wrote:

> I'm merging Mark's patch into the MontaVista tree and will send out and
> updated patch vs upstream but also wondering what the proper route is for
> MEMSETOOBSEL? I've been out of the mtd loop for a while but looking at the
> git log for mtd-abi.h and mtdchar.c, it looks like the ioctl() was removed
> over a year ago (commit ff268fb8791cf18df536113355d7184007c269d9).  Do we
> re-introduce it or can we update the tools?

I'd prefer to update the tools.  The problem is, I haven't found time
to really look at it yet and I'm not sure _how_ to update it.

> Thomas, I'm including you b/c you made the original commit to remove
> MEMSETOOBSEL but also made changes to nandwrite.c that use it a month
> later. :) Should we put MEMSETOOBSEL back in?

Yeah... Thomas?

josh



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