[PATCH mtd-utils 00/11] flash_{un,}lock upgrades

[Brian Norris]

Hi,

I've done a bit of work to make the flash_lock tool more useful, in order to
help test some new SPI NOR block protection features. Of note:

 * added getopt support
 * further unified flash_unlock and flash_lock -- the only difference now is
   their default feature, and both binaries contain support for all features
 * add support for MEMISLOCKED, so we can query arbitrary regions for
   protection status
 * mtdinfo -M already can dump some block lock information, but you get a
   little more flexibility using flash_lock --info, so both seem worth having
   IMO

Unsolved issues:

 * the MEM{LOCK,UNLOCK,ISLOCKED} ioctls all still use the out-dated 32-bit
   erase_info_user struct, which means they'll have problems supporting >=4GB
   flash. This isn't a mtd-utils problem, per se, and at the moment, Linux NAND
   (the only (?) candidate for >=4GB flash) support doesn't implement any of
   the locking APIs. But just an observation I ran across.
 * Deprecation plan: it would make sense to deprecate and remove flash_unlock
   eventually (in favor of 'flash_lock --unlock'), but this isn't really
   pressing, so I don't see a good reason to spend much effort on it.

Enjoy,
Brian

Brian Norris (11):
  flash_{un,}lock: nest optional parameters in help message
  flash_{un,}lock: switch to getopt library
  flash_{un,}lock: support --version flag
  flash_{un,}lock: document option flags
  flash_{un,}lock: abstract the argument positions
  flash_{un,}lock: move args processing to its own function
  flash_{un,}lock: support both lock/unlock in the same binary
  flash_{un,}lock: add MEMISLOCKED support
  flash_{un,}lock: improve strtol() error handling
  flash_{un,}lock: don't allow "last byte + 1"
  flash_{un,}lock: document block count == -1

 flash_unlock.c | 182 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 156 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

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