[PATCH 4/6] nanddump: warn about changing default badblock method
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 19:32:01 EDT 2011
In an upcoming release, we will no longer default to --bb=padbad. Instead,
the default will be --bb=skipbad. This makes nanddump a better inverse
operation to nandwrite.
This patch prints warnings for users so that they get a chance to update
their scripts before the default changes officially.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
---
nanddump.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/nanddump.c b/nanddump.c
index 4f28e33..211f8ae 100644
--- a/nanddump.c
+++ b/nanddump.c
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ static void process_options(int argc, char * const argv[])
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
+ if (bb_default)
+ fprintf(stderr, "Warning: you did not specify a default bad-block handling\n"
+ " method. In future versions, the default will change to\n"
+ " --bb=skipbad. Use \"nanddump --help\" for more information.\n");
+
if ((argc - optind) != 1 || error)
display_help();
--
1.7.0.4
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