Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] nand: spi: Add bad block support

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:22:17 +0100
Arnaud Mouiche <arnaud.mouiche@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/03/2017 07:47, Peter Pan wrote:
> > [...]
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * spinand_scan_bbt - scan BBT in SPI NAND device
> > + * @chip: SPI NAND device structure
> > + */
> > +static int spinand_scan_bbt(struct spinand_device *chip)
> > +{
> > +	struct nand_device *nand = &chip->base;
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	nand->bbt.options |= NAND_BBT_USE_FLASH | NAND_BBT_NO_OOB;
> > +	nand->bbt.td = NULL;
> > +	nand->bbt.md = NULL;
> > +
> > +	ret = spinand_create_badblock_pattern(chip);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	return nand_scan_bbt(nand);
> > +}
> > +  
> 
> Boris, Peter,
> 
> I'm not a big fan of NAND_BBT_USE_FLASH for small capacity nand flash 
> (eg. 1Gb with 1024 blocks, where a complete bad block scan on boot is 
> fast enough).
> Do you consider NAND_BBT_USE_FLASH as mandatory, or does a optional 
> "of_get_nand_on_flash_bbt(dn))" device tree configuration is something 
> possible ?

It should be optional indeed.