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From: Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: oobavail issues
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:29:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503311029.46475.mreimer@vpop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112296829.4228.75.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>

On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:20 am, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 09:29 -0800, Matthew Reimer wrote:
> > I'm not sure what is the correct fix--calculate oobavail differently, or
> > to change the loop condition in nand_prepare_oobbuf, or to require
> > nand_oobinfo.oobfree to cover every OOB byte. We just copied from the
> > s3c2410.c, assuming it was correct.
>
> I will fix this. But I still wonder why you hit this problem with JFFS2.
> JFFS2 does not provide a filesystem buffer for oob data, so the memcpy
> in nand_prepare_oobbuf is never invoked.

IIRC it wasn't jffs2 but the MTD_WRITEECC() we were doing to write a kernel to 
a partition, which we had to do in preparation for mounting jffs2. Sorry for 
the confusion.

Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-31 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-31  1:18 oobavail issues Joshua Wise
2005-03-31 11:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-03-31 17:29   ` Matthew Reimer
2005-03-31 19:20     ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-03-31 18:29       ` Matthew Reimer [this message]
2005-04-01  8:23         ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-04-01 17:27           ` Matthew Reimer

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