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From:   Steve deRosier <derosier@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:28:47 -0700
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Subject: Re: Query: UBIFS: How to detect empty volumes
To:     Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:52 AM Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com> wrote:
> But, it might be possible that some developer may miss/skip this
> firmware copying part, thus

This is your root problem.

If your build system requires any "magic incantations" such that it is
even possible that a developer can miss a step and result in this
situation, you *must* solve this problem.  I don't know what you're
doing, but honestly, this shouldn't be much more than adding a line or
two into a Makefile or build.sh script.  Fix this first.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing for your on-target flashing system to
sanity check the images, but that will never fix a broken process. Fix
the broken process.

- Steve