Fix mtd-utils bugs

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 13 06:14:08 EDT 2010


On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 12:51 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:36 +0800, Stanley.Miao wrote:
> > Re-send them because I didn't give a email subject in last version.
> > 
> > The "struct nand_oobinfo" is able to record only 32 ECC code positions,which
> > is not enough for many big NAND chips. Therefore, this structure is replaced
> > by "struct nand_ecclayout" in linux kernel from the version 2.6.17.
> > Consequently, the ioctl command changed from MEMGETOOBSEL to ECCGETLAYOUT.
> > 
> > Now update nandwrite to use the new ioctl command ECCGETLAYOUT. In order to
> > keep compatible with the old linux kernel, a linux version detection function
> > is added.
> > 
> > YAFFS and JFFS2 has updated and we don't need the arguments "forcelegacy",
> > "forcejffs2", "forceyaffs" anymore. Now clean them up. 
> 
> Please, make sure your submissions have proper version. I have limited
> amount of time and do not want to spend it figuring out which patch is
> the latest. Use the best kernel practices and apply prefix your stuff
> with [PATCHv3] or something like that.
> 
> Could you please re-submit your latest version?

Also, it is nice to put a short changelog, but I can live without it.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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