[PATCH 4/4] mtd-utils: unify flash_erase and flash_eraseall

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Sep 24 08:42:13 EDT 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:42, Jon Povey wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 00:35, Jon Povey wrote:
>>> But anyway; will the flash_eraseall script still get installed by
>>> make install? it needs to.
>>
>> it will not, but i didnt think that to be too much of a problem.
>> people usually dont use `make install` for their embedded system ...
>> they pluck out the one or two utils they actually need.
>
> "I suppose" is not much of an argument for breaking make install.
> It can be made to work.. I could do this but don't have time right now.

you call it "breakage", i call it "intended behavior"

it's trivial to make it work as a one off:
+install: TARGETS += flash_eraseall
-mike



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