Hi!

I've posted this patch first in February 2007 in message 20070216230025.GK11991@prithivi.gnumonks.org to this list. However, it never received any feedback, neither positive nor negative. Could you please consider reviewing/merging it? Thanks!

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Re-introduce the 'nand read.oob' and 'nand write.oob' commands that used to exist with the legacy NAND code

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte laforge@openmoko.org

Index: u-boot/common/cmd_nand.c =================================================================== --- u-boot.orig/common/cmd_nand.c +++ u-boot/common/cmd_nand.c @@ -343,6 +343,14 @@ opts.quiet = quiet; ret = nand_write_opts(nand, &opts); } + } else if (s != NULL && !strcmp(s, ".oob")) { + /* read out-of-band data */ + if (read) + ret = nand->read_oob(nand, off, size, &size, + (u_char *) addr); + else + ret = nand->write_oob(nand, off, size, &size, + (u_char *) addr); } else { if (read) ret = nand_read(nand, off, &size, (u_char *)addr);