Re: [PATCH] [MTD] [NAND]: nand_default_mark_blockbad() doesn't work when flash-based bbt not enabled (fwd)

[Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 09:33 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
>   
>> (As note, it seems to be that logically, it shouldn't be necessary to set 
>> both length variables, as one appears to be for the main buffer, and 
>> one for the oob buffer, but this is how it is done in several places, 
>> including the code for the mtd character device MEMWRITEOOB and MEMREADOOB
>> ioctls. I'm not sure if this is a temporary solution during some rework of 
>> the mtd infrastructure, or whether there is a deeper thought here.)
>>     
>
> Hm. That seems wrong to me. If we don't want to read or write the main
> area, we should set ops.len to zero. And if that doesn't work, it should
> probably be fixed.
>
> I'd rather see a patch which fixes that.
>
>   
We discussed that w/ tglx some time ago and we couldn't find a 5 minute 
solution :)

Vitaly