nanddump badblock options

Mike Frysinger vapier.adi at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 20:13:41 EDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 19:09, Brian Norris wrote:
> Also, I haven't heard any comments on my idea of changing the default
> OOB options, where nanddump should NOT, by default, dump OOB data
> (like nandwrite, which does NOT write OOB by default). I'm thinking we
> could change the default here and add an option to force it to include
> OOB:

i think that makes sense

> This is mostly just a question of what is least confusing to the
> mtd-utils user community; I can adapt to my own code changes!

u-boot changed defaults similar to this and there werent really any
complaints.  i believe nandwrite/nanddump output info by default,
right ?  if we make it explicit what it's doing, people should be
fine.
-mike



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