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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] MTD: nand: make reads using MTD_OOB_RAW affect
	only ECC validation
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:

> This changes the behavier of MTD_OOB_RAW. It used to read both OOB and data
> to the data buffer, however you would still need to specify the dummy oob buffer.
> 
> This is only used in one place, but makes it hard to read data+oob without ECC
> test, thus I removed that behavier, and fixed the user.
> 
> Now MTD_OOB_RAW behaves just like MTD_OOB_PLACE, but doesn't do ECC validation

Is this tested against existing user space tools like nanddump ? Can I
still get the raw data from flash ?

Thanks,

	tglx