From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: full 64-bit support w/ libmtd
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:53:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289649227.2218.40.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289457554-24155-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 22:39 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> Several ioctls are replaced with libmtd calls which should give us 64-bit
> support for large devices. libmtd mostly provides drop-in replacements
> for the functionality we need. However, when we require erasure of a
> badly-written block, mtd_erase() only erases a single block, whereas
> MEMERASE could erase a larger region. In nandwrite, we may have a "virtual
> blocksize" of more than one (when blockalign > 1). Thus, I added a loop
> for this case.
You could as well just introduce another libmtd helper - would be
cleaner, IMO.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-13 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 8:27 [PATCH 01/10] mtd-utils: nanddump: Allow 64-bit lengths Brian Norris
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 02/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: Comment, style fixups Brian Norris
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 03/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: Clarify usage of aligned "erasesize" Brian Norris
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 04/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: switch "oobsize" for "writesize" Brian Norris
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 05/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: Use libmtd to get correct mtd parameters Brian Norris
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 06/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: Use 64-bit offset Brian Norris
2010-11-13 11:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 22:45 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-14 7:49 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 07/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: avoid NULL buffer pointers Brian Norris
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 08/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: prevent 32-bit overflow Brian Norris
2010-11-09 9:48 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-11 6:31 ` [PATCH v2 " Brian Norris
2010-11-09 12:20 ` [PATCH " Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 09/10] mtd-utils: nanddump: type consistency Brian Norris
2010-11-09 9:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-09 18:19 ` Brian Norris
2010-11-10 0:00 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-11 6:39 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: full 64-bit support w/ libmtd Brian Norris
2010-11-13 11:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-11-16 17:06 ` Brian Norris
2010-11-16 19:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-11-11 6:39 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: type consistency Brian Norris
2010-11-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 10/10] mtd-utils: nandwrite: full 64-bit support w/ libmtd Brian Norris
2010-11-09 9:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] mtd-utils: nanddump: Allow 64-bit lengths Mike Frysinger
2010-11-13 11:31 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 11:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 11:55 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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