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On 08/20/2010 12:43 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:36 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>> An increase in NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE and NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE is necessary
>> in order to support many new chips. Among those:
>>
>> Toshiba TC58TxG4S2FBAxx  8KB page, 576B OOB
>> Micron MT29F64G08CBAAA   8KB page, 448B OOB
>
> Ick, don't we have a better fix for this in the works?
>

For the MAX macros? I have no idea. There were comments there telling me 
to do this whenever newer chips are supported.