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From: Jeff Hane <jhane@mobilygen.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: failure to mount partition after flash_eraseall -j
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:17:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197328641.9854.83.camel@qu056.quarc.com> (raw)


 I've got a nand chip that I've erased using flash_eraseall -j but it
still fails to mount.

 It is failing because of the cleanmarker compare is failing.
flash_eraseall writes a cleanmarker of size 8 or less.  It gets this
length from the *first* oobfree area.  In my case, this is 7.
 However, when trying to mount the chip and the function
jffs2_check_nand_cleanmarker it does this:
cmlen = min_t(int, c->oobavail, OOB_CM_SIZE);

OOB_CM_SIZE is 8 but oobavail is the total of all the available oob not
just the first segment(43 in my case).  So them memcmp fails because it
tries to compare 8 bytes instead of 7.

 Should flash_eraseall try to see if there is a total of 8 free bytes of
oob area.  However, the MEMWRITEOOB ioctl still uses OOB_PLACE and not
OOB_AUTO so this seems like it would still not work?

 If I'm missing something let me know otherwise I'm open for
suggestions.

thanks,
jeff

                 reply	other threads:[~2007-12-10 23:30 UTC|newest]

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