Re: [PATCH] UBI: add minimal amount of reserved erase blocks in Kconfig

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 23:43 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> First, change the semantics of CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_RESERVE to be the
> percent of total number of eraseblocks (instead of total number of
> _good_ eraseblocks). And 'reserve' counts for both existing bad PEBs
> and those reserved for future bad PEB handling.
> Note this would still be % of the blocks in the mtd partition (and as
> such, it is very loosely related to the MBB of the device, if at all).
> 
> Then, Richard may introduce the MBB parameter to ubiattach, and later
> may kill CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_RESERVE (if no longer needed). The
> calculations will be according to the new parameter.
> 
> What do you say?
> 
> On a side note, the new ubiattach parameter should not be called MBB,
> but rather a generic "reserved" (or "% reserved").
> 
> This is since the MBB is a property of the mtd nand device.
> But the ubi user may issue, for the partition attached, a value other
> than the device's MBB, according to his storage needs and
> risks/securities he is willing to take.

Sounds good, thank you!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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