From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([62.4.15.54]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.87 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1d96yD-0007gO-7H for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 09:34:46 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 11:34:14 +0200 From: Boris Brezillon To: Mario Rugiero Cc: Richard Weinberger , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: add option to erase NAND blocks even if detected as bad. Message-ID: <20170512113414.213f515b@bbrezillon> In-Reply-To: References: <20170512053957.10426-1-mrugiero@gmail.com> <20170512102407.217b805a@bbrezillon> <20170512104554.5670bb4d@bbrezillon> <20170512110230.56e6250d@bbrezillon> <982c0331-216c-3096-9349-d18e2247ddac@nod.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 12 May 2017 06:26:14 -0300 Mario Rugiero wrote: > 2017-05-12 6:19 GMT-03:00 Richard Weinberger : > > Am 12.05.2017 um 11:15 schrieb Mario Rugiero: > >> I'll read it carefully later. Is there any rough time estimate for it > >> to hit mainline? > >> I'm not expecting a date, but rather something in the lines of > >> "several weeks, several months, several years". > >> I think we can do with several months, and we'd be happy to start > >> local experiments with that timeframe in mind. > >> Several years might be more than the devices will live, though. > > > > Since there is currently no funding it might take much longer. > GSoC sounds like a viable workaround. > It'd hahve to wait for next year, though. > I think I'm elligible, so if I still have access to these boards and > Boris can mentor me, we could get funding to speed up the development. > I'd be happy to donate it to have another developer, as I'm already > kinda being paid for this. > What do you think of that? Yep, that's a possibility.