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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
To: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: omap: save Bad-Block-Table (BBT) on device
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:05:10 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140723120510.GA19677@arch.cereza> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406116461-27089-1-git-send-email-pekon@ti.com>

Hi Pekon,

On 23 Jul 05:24 PM, Pekon Gupta wrote:
> This patch makes OMAP NAND driver to
> - save Bad-Block-Table (BBT) on NAND Flash device
> - scan on device BBT during probe
> 

Doesn't this break backward compatibility? Please correct me if I'm wrong
here, but if I apply this patch, and boot with my current NAND flash
contents, the kernel won't have any place to store the BBT (assuming
there are no blocks reserved).
-- 
Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-23 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-23 11:54 [PATCH] mtd: nand: omap: save Bad-Block-Table (BBT) on device Pekon Gupta
2014-07-23 12:05 ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]
2014-07-23 16:26   ` Gupta, Pekon
2014-07-23 20:27     ` ezequiel
2014-07-24  1:54       ` Brian Norris
2014-07-24 13:40         ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-07-24 19:11           ` Brian Norris
2014-07-24 17:56         ` Gupta, Pekon

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