nanddump badblock options

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 00:42:38 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:17 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> One last idea, while I'm trying to bring nanddump and nandwrite a
> little closer together:
> 
> It makes sense for nanddump and nandwrite to have the same defaults
> regarding OOB. Right now, nandwrite doesn't write OOB by default, and
> nanddump dumps OOB by default. Is it OK to unify this and make
> nanddump default to *not* dumping OOB? Then the nanddump '-o' and
> '--oob' options would stand for 'Dump OOB data'. Unfortunately, this
> makes the '-o' option completely reverse its meaning...

Yes, I think so. Just invent a sensible "deprecation period" plan and go
ahead with unifying them.

Thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy




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