From: stefani on
From: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net>

This patch add a quick format option which skips erasing of already erased
flash blocks. This is useful for first time production environments where
the flash arrived erased.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net>
---
ubi-utils/src/ubiformat.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ubi-utils/src/ubiformat.c b/ubi-utils/src/ubiformat.c
index 4e27e4f..8e33334 100644
--- a/ubi-utils/src/ubiformat.c
+++ b/ubi-utils/src/ubiformat.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
#include "common.h"
#include "ubiutils-common.h"

-#define PROGRAM_VERSION "1.5"
+#define PROGRAM_VERSION "1.6"
#define PROGRAM_NAME "ubiformat"

/* The variables below are set by command line arguments */
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ struct args {
unsigned int verbose:1;
unsigned int override_ec:1;
unsigned int novtbl:1;
+ unsigned int quick:1;
unsigned int manual_subpage;
int subpage_size;
int vid_hdr_offs;
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ static const char *optionsstr =
" (default is 1)\n"
"-Q, --image-seq=<num> 32-bit UBI image sequence number to use\n"
" (by default a random number is picked)\n"
+"-E, --erase-quick erase only used blocks\n"
"-y, --yes assume the answer is \"yes\" for all question\n"
" this program would otherwise ask\n"
"-q, --quiet suppress progress percentage information\n"
@@ -125,6 +127,7 @@ static const struct option long_options[] = {
{ .name = "ubi-ver", .has_arg = 1, .flag = NULL, .val = 'x' },
{ .name = "help", .has_arg = 0, .flag = NULL, .val = 'h' },
{ .name = "version", .has_arg = 0, .flag = NULL, .val = 'V' },
+ { .name = "erase-quick", .has_arg = 0, .flag = NULL, .val = 'E' },
{ NULL, 0, NULL, 0},
};

@@ -138,7 +141,7 @@ static int parse_opt(int argc, char * const argv[])
char *endp;
unsigned long int image_seq;

- key = getopt_long(argc, argv, "nh?Vyqve:x:s:O:f:S:", long_options, NULL);
+ key = getopt_long(argc, argv, "nh?Vyqve:x:s:O:f:S:E", long_options, NULL);
if (key == -1)
break;

@@ -202,6 +205,10 @@ static int parse_opt(int argc, char * const argv[])
break;


+ case 'E':
+ args.quick = 1;
+ break;
+
case 'v':
args.verbose = 1;
break;
@@ -600,7 +607,20 @@ static int format(libmtd_t libmtd, const struct mtd_dev_info *mtd,
ec = si->ec[eb] + 1;
else
ec = si->mean_ec;
- ubigen_init_ec_hdr(ui, hdr, ec);
+
+ if (args.quick) {
+ err = mtd_read(mtd, args.node_fd, eb, 0, hdr, write_size);
+ if (!err) {
+ int i;
+
+ for(i = 0; i != write_size; i++) {
+ if (((unsigned char *)hdr)[i] != 0xff)
+ break;
+ }
+ if (i == write_size)
+ goto skip_erase;
+ }
+ }

if (args.verbose) {
normsg_cont("eraseblock %d: erase", eb);
@@ -621,6 +641,9 @@ static int format(libmtd_t libmtd, const struct mtd_dev_info *mtd,
continue;
}

+skip_erase:
+ ubigen_init_ec_hdr(ui, hdr, ec);
+
if ((eb1 == -1 || eb2 == -1) && !novtbl) {
if (eb1 == -1) {
eb1 = eb;
--
1.7.2

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