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From: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] nand_btt : use nand chip->block_bad
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:02:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120630230252.58ca6bb4@halley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FED6A2E.9010603@parrot.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:41:18 +0200 Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com> wrote:
> > - The new scheme lacks the potential error correction offered by the
> >   mtd_read_oob call (invoked from the original scan functions).
> >   OTOH, currently, AFAIK, it is only offered by an out-of-tree driver.
> Could you explain more here ?
> The current scheme doesn't handle bitflip in bad block. We don't care about
> error correction : bad block are not protected by ecc !

I was refering to utilizing the ECC when reading the OOB, so we won't
get a false "bad" indication when reading the BBM from the OOB.

See this post (and subsequent ones):
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-June/042203.html

Regards,
Shmulik

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-30 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-28 15:47 [RFC] nand_btt : use nand chip->block_bad Matthieu CASTET
2012-06-28 18:31 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-06-29  8:41   ` Matthieu CASTET
2012-06-30 20:02     ` Shmulik Ladkani [this message]
2012-07-02  8:29       ` Matthieu CASTET
2012-07-24  3:53         ` Brian Norris
2012-07-25 11:02           ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-08-06 22:21             ` Brian Norris
2012-08-07  7:09               ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-09-18  1:06               ` Brian Norris
2012-09-18  1:28                 ` Scott Wood
2012-09-26 22:43                   ` Brian Norris
2012-09-26 22:57                     ` Scott Wood
2012-09-26 23:15                       ` Brian Norris

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