[PATCH mtd-utils] nanddump: check write function result for errors

[Richard Weinberger]

Rafał,

Am 18.07.2016 um 13:59 schrieb Rafał Miłecki:
> On 18 July 2016 at 13:33, Richard Weinberger
> <richard.weinberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Errors may happen, it's e.g. easy on embedded devices to run out of space
>>> when dumping big partitions. This patch adds a helper function for
>>> writing. It deals with partial writes and just returns 0 on success or
>>> error number.
>>>
>>> The old code didn't check for errors at all which could result in
>>> incomplete dumps without exiting with an error.
>>
>> Is this patch different from my version, does it fix more?
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-April/067234.html
>>
>> Brian, if this is fine with you I'd apply one of these patches.
> 
> I wasn't aware of your patch, having it accepted would save me some
> time for sure.
> 
> Two minor advantages I see in my version:
> 1) It handles partial writes, just retries if only some part of buffer
> has been written

That's a plus point. :-)

> 2) It displays error number and string which may provide some extra
> hint to the user

My patch too since it uses mtd-util's logging functions.
sys_errmsg(...)

Could you please merge both patches and resend?

Thanks,
//richard