mtd-utils: "flash_erase -j" failes with "unable to get NAND oobinfo" on large flash chips.

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:58 +0200, Daid wrote:
> I've made a patch to fix flash_erase with large flash chips.
> flash_erase uses MEMGETOOBSEL which no longer works if the ECC area is
> larger then 32 bytes. ECCGETLAYOUT is the replacement ioctl.
> 
> This patch is based on the work of Stanley Miao, he made a patch in
> June 2010 for flash_eraseall.
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2010-June/031981.html
> I've implemented the backwards compatibility differently, checking
> kernel versions doesn't feel correct.

Hi Daid, would you please use libmtd instead? If libmtd does not have
some functionality you need - just add it there.

The thing is that we are trying to unify this stuff a little.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)