From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: manningc2@actrix.gen.nz, Paul <paul@maypaul.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
yaffs list <yaffs@toby-churchill.org>
Subject: Re: Restore the bad block flag in OOB of NAND flash
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:20:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304180020.58774.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030417204847.5409515144@desire.actrix.co.nz>
On Thursday 17 April 2003 22:49, Charles Manning wrote:
>
> One way to achieve what you want is to hack mkyaffs. mkyaffs erases the
> blocks in the partition, but first checks for bad block markers. If you
> comment out the check then it will erase the block regardless. This will
> set all the bits in the block to 1 (including the bad block marker).
Only if you hack drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c too, as there is a senity check,
which refuses to erase bad blocks :)
--
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-17 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-17 17:21 Restore the bad block flag in OOB of NAND flash Paul
2003-04-17 19:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2003-04-17 20:49 ` Charles Manning
2003-04-17 22:20 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2003-04-18 3:44 ` Paul Wong
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