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
next prev parent 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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