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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:05:10 -0300
From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
To: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: omap: save Bad-Block-Table (BBT) on device
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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).
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Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar