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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2011-06-07 10:36:26 +0300
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2011-06-07 10:36:26 +0300
commit74bef2b8693c7e4f78e1ef742933b7231e49c7ad (patch)
tree7732ae4f5ff5338f6ac27d60d9976c066f7856ce /feature-removal-schedule.txt
parent58ece20278fdc8730a017a1744afe717ccb771de (diff)
mtdinfo: deprecate the -m option
... because mtd device node name do not have to follow the "/dev/mtd%d" pattern. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@@ -20,11 +20,16 @@ neither --squash-rino-perm nor --nosquash-rino-perm were used,
mkfs.ubifs printed a warning. This was introduced in mtd-utils-1.4.0 (13 Sep 2010).
Now we have removed a warning and made --nosquash-rino-perm to be the
-default. Also, both options are declared depricated, so users should try
+default. Also, both options are declared deprecated, so users should try
to stop using them.
The further step is to remove both of them.
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-2.
+2. Kill -m parameter of mtdinfo
+
+We cannot assume that mtd device names follow the "/dev/mtd%d" pattern,
+because it is up to udev rules to name the devices. So we are removing
+the -m option. For now, we just have a warning, but the option will be
+removed in release 1.4.6.
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