[PATCH 6/6] flash_info: punt in favor of mtdinfo

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 03:43:11 EDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 02:19 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Now that the mtdinfo utility can do everything that flash_info
> could do (and better), punt it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
> ---
>  Makefile     |    2 +-
>  flash_info.c |  141 ----------------------------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 flash_info.c

Let's give it some deprecation period. Would it be possible to add an
entry to feature-removal-schedule.txt instead, and print a warning in
flash_info that it will be removed in mtd-utils-1.4.6. So we'll let it
be in 1.4.5 with this warning. Then I'll remove it myself in 1.4.6.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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