[BUG] mtdinfo -a: Tries to open NULL pointer for NOR with Eraseblock Regions
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 13:47:39 EDT 2011
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Brian Foster
<brian.foster at maxim-ic.com> wrote:
> You should decide what ‘-a’ means: “all information”
> or “all devices”. If “all information”, then either a
> bunch of work needs to be done, or else ‘-a’ removed.
>
> But if “all devices” — which happens to be both what
> I think it means and how I use it — then it is very
> useful, at least in my situation where I'm bringing up
> a new SoC and board. It's a nice summary of what I'm
> usually interested in; if it didn't exist, I'd “have”
> to script it. And in either case, if and when I do
> need all the information about _a_ device, then I do
> ‘mtdinfo /dev/mtd<N>’.
I think we're going with "all devices" then, with less emphasis on
100% completeness of information. For one, it reflects the current
code, and the help message has stated this its purpose for a while:
"-a, --all print information about all MTD devices"
Thanks for the contributions.
Brian
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