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On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 06:55 -0800, Mike Dunn wrote:
> So you're thinking that the driver would supply both ecc_strength and
> "scrublevel" (or maybe bb_threshold)?  Would these go into struct mtd_info?

Probably yes. After all, UBI has no idea about what kind of flash is
that and what kind of ECC it uses and what bit-flip level needs
scrubbing. So I think this kind of information should come from the
driver or from the user via mtd sysfs files. What do you think?

Artem.