RE: NAND OOB data.

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 17:53 +0000, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Atlant Schmidt [mailto:aschmidt@dekaresearch.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:14 AM
> > To: ANDY KENNEDY; linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: RE: NAND OOB data.
> > 
> > Andy:
> > 
> >   If you don't have the old bad block information saved
> >   away somewhere (a bad block table, a scrap of paper,
> >   etc.), then you *CAN'T* completely recover from this
> >   situation; the original bad block data for that chip
> >   is probably irretrievably lost.*
> 
> All the other boards apparently are all good (is that normal?), but,
> I'm not worried about the NAND having KNOWN bad blocks as this board
> is supposed to be mine.

I think someone implemented an utility or ioctl for this, probably
Matthew Castet, but I asked for some more improvements or something, and
he disappeared. Try to find the thread, may be you can continue his
work.

But in general, I think the ideal way would be:

1. be able to distinguish between factory-marked and user-marked bad
blocks.
2. allow unmarking user-marked bad blocks, but not factory marked.

Not sure this is always possible, though.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy