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From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
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Hi Boris,

Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote on Wed, 18 Jul 2018
23:36:37 +0200:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 23:15:26 +0200
> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
>=20
> > Hi Abhishek,
> >=20
> > Abhishek Sahu <absahu@codeaurora.org> wrote on Fri,  6 Jul 2018
> > 13:21:58 +0530:
> >  =20
> > > Remove the NAND_SKIP_BBTSCAN to use RAM based BBT.   =20
> >=20
> > Unless I am understanding it the wrong way, NAND_SKIP_BBTSCAN will skip
> > the scan of the on-chip BBT and will scan every block to construct a
> > RAM, based BBT thanks to the BBM.
> >=20
> > So flash based BBT is already unused and removing this flag is a
> > mistake, right? =20
>=20
> ->scan_bbt() is also taking care of building the in-RAM BBT based on =20
> BBM when no on-flash BBT is provided, so I think it's the right thing
> to do.

Oh right. Then doing so is harmless.

Thanks for the clarification.
Miqu=C3=A8l