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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alice Hennessy <ahennessy@mvista.com>,
	Steve Tsai <startec@ms11.hinet.net>,
	Linux MTD mailing list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: NAND Configuration
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:28:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028798911.9592.11.camel@thomas.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2777.1028798042@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 11:14, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> ahennessy@mvista.com said:
> >  From looking at nand_erase(), it appears that the attempted erase of
> > a bad block would result in not performing the erase and exiting with
> > -EIO, correct?
> 
> > What is the preferred method to erase nand? 
> 
> As I understand it, the preferred method to erase factory-marked bad blocks
> is not at all.
nand.c takes care of factory-marked blocks now, wether CONFIG_NAND_ECC_JFFS2 is set of not.
So you can use erase(all) and bad blockes are skipped.

-- 
Thomas 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-08  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-06  7:25 NAND Configuration Steve Tsai
2002-08-06  9:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-06 10:40   ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-06 12:16     ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-07  9:08       ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-07 10:05         ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-07 10:19           ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-07 10:49             ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-07 21:11               ` Alice Hennessy
2002-08-08  8:59                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-08  9:14                 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-08  9:28                   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2002-08-08  2:47               ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-08  5:23               ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-08  9:11                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-08  9:37                   ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-08 11:05                     ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-09  6:53                       ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-09  8:09                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-10  7:54                           ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-10  8:41                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-12  6:30                               ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-06  9:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-06 10:25   ` Steve Tsai
2002-08-06 12:28     ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-06 12:32       ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-06 12:40         ` Thomas Gleixner
2002-08-07 10:45       ` Steve Tsai

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