[PATCH 2/2] nanddump: add --nobad to read bad blocks
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 02:24:30 EDT 2010
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:22 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:50:04AM +0100, Jon Povey wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Sometimes dumping bad blocks is useful, like when the data isn't actually
> > > bad but the OOB layout isn't what the kernel is expecting or is otherwise
> > > screwed up. The --nobad option allows just that.
> >
> > > +"-N --nobad Read without bad block skipping\n"
> >
> > This doesn't seem like a good name for the option to me. A useful option but
> > an unintuitive name, "nobad" sounds like it is going to omit bad blocks,
> > where actually it is going to include them.
> >
> > "noskipbad" or "includebad" would seem to be better.
>
> I agree. Is that still fixable despite being pushed already?
Sure, send a patch please.
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Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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