[oe] mtd-utils - issues with flash_eraseall -j

[Andrea Adami]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> with the previous mtd-utils-1.3.1 I could do ' flash_eraseall -j
> /dev/mtd3' on my Zaurus/armv5te.
>
> With v. 1.4.1 (and 1.4.2 fwiw) I see following errors:
>
> ...
> flash_erase: error!: /dev/mtd3: MTD writeoob failure
>                        error 22 (Invalid argument)
> Erasing 16 Kibyte @ 43f0000 -- 99% complete libmtd: error!: unaligned address 7
> 1237640, mtd3 page size is 512
> flash_erase: error!: /dev/mtd3: MTD writeoob failure
>                        error 22 (Invalid argument)
> Erasing 16 Kibyte @ 43f4000 -- 99% complete libmtd: error!: unaligned address 7
> 1254024, mtd3 page size is 512
> ...
>
> Anybody can confirm the issue?
>
> Regards
>
> Andrea
>

It seems the issue has been aknowledge and resolved upstream.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-April/034599.html

http://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git/commit/b22f7f386ba37a766aedd8e8cf34781a3d1daad2


Let's move to 1.4.4 ! RFC follows

Andrea