Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: add option to erase NAND blocks even if detected as bad.

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

On Fri, 12 May 2017 07:06:45 -0300
Mario Rugiero <mrugiero@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-05-12 6:34 GMT-03:00 Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>:
> > On Fri, 12 May 2017 06:26:14 -0300
> > Mario Rugiero <mrugiero@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> 2017-05-12 6:19 GMT-03:00 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>:  
> >> > 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.  
> Great. Could you act as a mentor without GSoC for now?

Sure.

> I think I might be able to help after finishing with the slides, they
> seem clear enough, with proper guidance, and that'd help in my current
> work.
> I think I've read some slides from a previous talk by you, before the
> way to go was as clearly defined.

Actually, most of the development is done already, but we need to
intensively test the implementation and cleanup the code.

I also started to modify mtd-utils [1] to support the new format, but
didn't have time to finish.

[1]https://github.com/bbrezillon/mtd-utils/tree/ubi/mlc