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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand_bbt: kill NAND_BBT_SCANALLPAGES
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:29:35PM -0400, Brian Norris wrote:
> Now that the last user of NAND_BBT_SCANALLPAGES has been removed, let's
> kill this peculiar BBT feature flag.
> 

I must admit I also find this option a bit puzzling.

However, I'm wondering what happens if a manufacturer specifies
the bad block mark is in some page at the middle of a block.

AFAIK, some of them do exactly that, and I've always thought
this option was the solution for such cases.

So, is this really no longer needed?

-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com