On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Dave Jiang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Adding ndctl support that will allow clearing of bad blocks for a device.
>> Initial implementation will only support device dax devices. The ndctl
>> takes a device path and parameters of the starting bad block, and the number
>> of bad blocks to clear.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/ndctl-clear-error.txt |   38 ++++++
>>  builtin.h                           |    1
>>  ndctl/Makefile.am                   |    1
>>  ndctl/clear-error.c                 |  239 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  ndctl/lib/libndctl.c                |   72 +++++++++++
>>  ndctl/lib/libndctl.sym              |    2
>>  ndctl/libndctl.h.in                 |   10 +
>>  ndctl/ndctl.c                       |    1
>>  8 files changed, 364 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ndctl-clear-error.txt
>>  create mode 100644 ndctl/clear-error.c
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ndctl-clear-error.txt 
>> b/Documentation/ndctl-clear-error.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..b14521a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/ndctl-clear-error.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
>> +ndctl-clear-error(1)
>> +====================
>> +
>> +NAME
>> +----
>> +ndctl-clear-error - clear badblocks for a device
>
> I think "clear-error" is too ambiguous of a name, lets call the
> commands repair-media-errors and list-media-errors.

Actually let's kill the separate 'list-media-errors' command and just
add it as optional output to our existing 'list' command. With that in
place the repair command can be shortened to "repair-media"
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