Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mtd: nand: use nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk in default ECC read functions

Richard Weinberger
2015-08-04T07:21:54Z

Andrea,

Am 04.08.2015 um 09:02 schrieb Andrea Scian:
>> I'm not sure whether introducing a read-before-write check is the best solution.
>> At least we need hard numbers for slow/old SLC NANDs too.
>
> We can enable the feature only for MLC, AFAIK it has not been required for old SLC ;-)

I think this needs more discussion.

Boris, Brian, will you be at Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Dublin?
Maybe we can discuss these issues (data retention, ff-checks, etc...) in person and figure out where to address them.
I really want to avoid ad-hoc solutions. :)

> Thanks.
> In your opinion, enabling chk_io is correct to rough estimate the overhead or does it enable too much checks?

You mean the other checks bedside of self_check_write()? You can comment them out for your tests.

Thanks,
//richard