Re: nand oob corruption recovery

[David Updegraff <dave@cray.com>]

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Relevant to this; enclosed is small nandwrite.c patch that fixes 
segfault and at least warns about upcomming OOB destruction in 
large-block devices.

-dbu.

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--- mtd/util/nandwrite.c.orig	2004-07-01 17:09:12.124117544 -0500
+++ mtd/util/nandwrite.c	2004-07-01 17:16:44.497346360 -0500
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 /*
  * Buffer array used for writing data
  */
-unsigned char writebuf[512];
-unsigned char oobbuf[16];
+unsigned char *writebuf;
+unsigned char *oobbuf;
 
 // oob layouts to pass into the kernel as default
 struct nand_oobinfo none_oobinfo = { 
@@ -223,6 +223,19 @@
 		close(fd);
 		exit(1);
 	}
+
+	/* NOW! allocate writebuf and oobbuf.. */
+	writebuf = malloc (meminfo.oobblock);
+	oobbuf = malloc (meminfo.oobsize);
+	if (!writebuf || !oobbuf)
+		perror ("cannot allocate buffers\n");
+	if ((forcejffs2 || forceyaffs || autoplace) && (meminfo.oobsize > 16))
+	{
+		fprintf (stderr, "\nDanger!Danger! Will Robinson, Overriding driver's AUTO_ECC layout for \nlarge-block chips will almost certainly trash OOB!\n Continue? (y/N)\n");
+		if (getchar () != 'y') {
+			exit(1);
+		}
+	}
 	
 	// write without ecc ?
 	if (noecc) {