From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: linux equivalent of u-boot's "nand scrub" (erasing blocks even when OOB says "bad")
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:32:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284186737.1783.4.camel@brekeke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikrEq1hJEttX=DkMWYaLsJnW+QWGRaL2eygZ8uZ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 19:53 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the logical thing in my mind would be to extend the userspace mtd abi
> to allow a "do the erase even if people think it's bad" option.
> perhaps MEMSCRUB ?
If you do this, please do not use this name. In UBI we already use term
'scrubbing' for the process when we move contents of eraseblock because
we have bit-flips.
It will be confusing if the same word is used in MTD for "unmarking"
eraseblocks. How about: 'force erase' or 'bad erase' ?
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-10 23:53 linux equivalent of u-boot's "nand scrub" (erasing blocks even when OOB says "bad") Mike Frysinger
2010-09-11 6:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-09-12 4:03 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-09-12 7:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-22 7:43 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-09-23 12:28 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-23 19:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-09-24 8:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-13 5:54 ` linux equivalent of u-boot's "nand scrub" (erasing blocks even whenOOB " Jon Povey
2010-09-13 6:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-14 1:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-09-14 1:53 ` Jon Povey
2010-09-14 1:59 ` Mike Frysinger
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