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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make the mtdblock read/write skip the bad nand sector
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:29:11AM +0800, Hans Zhang wrote:
> On 2013/11/22 19:45, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> >> Thanks for your reply.
> >> This is for my embed system upgrade, I reserved one nand partition for filesystem
> >> environment which will load to DDR while uboot booting.
> >> This filesystem.uboot file should be able to read both by uboot and kernel, and
> >> maybe written by uboot and kernel. There will be no filesystems upon the nand in
> >> case the loader may not support some filesystem types while uboot booting.
> >>
> >> Seems that the trimmed environment of OS has get rid of the mtd-tools, So the dd
> >> command was the most convenience tools to use by hand.
> >>
> > I still don't understand why are you using mtdblock. Why can't you write
> > through the char device?
>
> Well, yes, write through the char device would be a solution.

But, *why* are you writing through mtdblock instead?

> I think that maybe it's an optional approach through mtdblock in case we do not have
> the mtd-tools in our environments, we do provider a simpler way to write the NAND
> through mtdblock.
>

Uh? simpler? Writing through mtdchat is as simple as it gets:

$ cat some_file.img > /dev/mtd0

Sorry, but I'm still confused at what are you trying to accomplish.
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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