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From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner)
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On Wednesday 02 June 2004 08:08, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >the NAND driver has some more new features
> >
> >- support for AG-AND chips (currently tested with HN29V1G91T-30)
> >- bad block table support (memory and flash based)
> >- a new API documentation (online version is available on MTD homepage)
>
> Sounds interesting...
>
> I'll test when I have some spare time available.
>
> Just a question.
>
> Does it do the automatic bad block skipping on read-only
> like my patch did, so I can mount CRAMFS?
>
> That is, is something like my patch still required,
> or it is no longer necessary?

No, it does not. This is the job of a translation layer. So your patch os n=
ot=20
obsolete

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Thomas
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