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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand_bbt: kill NAND_BBT_SCANALLPAGES
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:20:39 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131031102038.GA2391@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383186575-31328-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:29:35PM -0400, Brian Norris wrote:
> Now that the last user of NAND_BBT_SCANALLPAGES has been removed, let's
> kill this peculiar BBT feature flag.
> 

I must admit I also find this option a bit puzzling.

However, I'm wondering what happens if a manufacturer specifies
the bad block mark is in some page at the middle of a block.

AFAIK, some of them do exactly that, and I've always thought
this option was the solution for such cases.

So, is this really no longer needed?

-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-31 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-31  2:29 [PATCH] mtd: nand_bbt: kill NAND_BBT_SCANALLPAGES Brian Norris
2013-10-31 10:20 ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]
2013-10-31 15:22   ` Brian Norris
2013-10-31 15:32     ` Ezequiel Garcia
2013-10-31 17:52       ` Brian Norris
2013-10-31 19:04 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2013-11-01  9:01   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-11-01 18:33     ` Brian Norris

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