Fix mtd-utils bugs

stanley.miao stanley.miao at windriver.com
Thu Jun 17 00:10:06 EDT 2010


Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 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.
>   

Sorry for the delayed reply. I was on vacation in the past 6 days.

I will re-send them soon.

Stanley.




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