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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Nandwrite's behavior in case of write failure
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:59:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244552342.5847.389.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2D77EE.2090400@orb.com>

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 13:43 -0700, Jehan Bing wrote:
> Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > Yes, write and erase failure mean that the erasblock is bad. But I think
> > marking a block as bad straight away is just dangerous. Who knows may be
> > this is a small glitch in a bus, or a software bug, or some-one
> > corrupted driver's memory, or whatever. This is why UBI is doing
> > eraseblock torturing before marking it as bad. And it is very careful
> > about error codes - only EIO code is considered as a reason to mark an
> > eraseblock as bad.
> 
> 
> Fixed broken behavior in case of write failure. More specifically:
> - Only try to mark a block bad if the errors are EIO. Other errors
> will abort the tool.
> - Also abort the tool if the marking fails instead of ignoring it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>

Looks good to me, pushed, thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05  1:23 Nandwrite's behavior in case of write failure Nahor
2009-06-05 12:31 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-06  2:40   ` Nahor
2009-06-07  8:57     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-08 17:00       ` Nahor
2009-06-08 20:43       ` Jehan Bing
2009-06-09 12:59         ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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