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| author | Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> | 2011-06-22 09:49:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> | 2011-06-23 17:57:55 +0300 |
| commit | 16b6394728298f5d2055e4714e8795045f4a1275 (patch) | |
| tree | 05c8f35e09c730b079b4cfb6280773785fea6b30 | |
| parent | 2055285d28b036a81f92bbbed92d06f926d779cb (diff) | |
feature-removal-schedule: describe nanddump changes
Include a few notes about the edited options and new defaults for bad
block handling in nanddump.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | feature-removal-schedule.txt | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/feature-removal-schedule.txt index a5980f7..f9910f1 100644 --- a/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -40,3 +40,29 @@ This is duplicating behavior with the mtdinfo utility. Now the util warns when people use it, but it'll be removed in release 1.4.6. --------------------------- + +4. Rename --noskipbad option, kill --omitbad, change default BB method for nanddump + +Our bad block handling methods are getting disorganized. They will be replaced +by a series of --bb=METHOD options (see `nanddump --help'). + +In addition, the previous default bad block behavior was to dump 0xFF in place +of bad blocks. This was not a good "inverse operation" of nandwrite. Thus, the +current default behavior has become the (new) option --bb=padbad, and in 1.4.6, +the default will be --bb=skipbad. + +The new `--bb=METHOD' options are included in this release, but all feature +removals and changed defaults will occur in 1.4.6. For now, there are +appropriate deprecation warning messages and an alert telling about the +soon-to-be-default settings. + +Transition summary table: +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Old option New option Comment +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + <default> --bb=padbad dump flash data, substituting 0xFF for any bad blocks + --noskipbad --bb=dumpbad dump flash data, including any bad blocks + --skipbad --bb=skipbad, <default> dump good data, completely skipping any bad blocks (new default) + --omitbad N/A very similar to `skipbad', will be removed soon + +--------------------------- |