[PATCH 0/2] Support skipping bad blocks when seeking to start address

Mike Crowe mac at mcrowe.com
Wed Jan 4 06:18:04 PST 2017


I found myself needing to write and verify part of a partition that
will be read by the bootloader by skipping blocks from the start of
the partition. Initially I added separate --input-skip and
--output-skip options but David Oberhollenzer suggested in
<cdfdbe5d-1aa8-e424-7691-338d0d63f7b1 at sigma-star.at> that a simple
flag to indicate that the start address should skip bad blocks would
avoid ambiguity.

David also suggested that I skip the bad blocks in a separate step
before the already-cluttered main loop.

Mike Crowe (2):
  nandwrite: Add --skip-bad-blocks-to-start option
  nanddump: Add --skip-bad-blocks-to-start option

 nand-utils/nanddump.c  | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 nand-utils/nandwrite.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+)

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2.1.4




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