Re: [PATCH 10/15] MTD: nand: make reads using MTD_OOB_RAW affect only ECC validation

Thomas Gleixner
2010-02-22T21:20:58Z

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:

> This changes the behavier of MTD_OOB_RAW. It used to read both OOB and data
> to the data buffer, however you would still need to specify the dummy oob buffer.
>
> This is only used in one place, but makes it hard to read data+oob without ECC
> test, thus I removed that behavier, and fixed the user.
>
> Now MTD_OOB_RAW behaves just like MTD_OOB_PLACE, but doesn't do ECC validation

Is this tested against existing user space tools like nanddump ? Can I
still get the raw data from flash ?

Thanks,

tglx