[U-Boot] [PATCH] NAND: Really ignore bad blocks when scrubbing

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>]

On Friday, August 19, 2011 10:08:33 PM Scott Wood wrote:
> On 08/16/2011 12:03 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |    2 +-
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c |    1 +
> >  include/linux/mtd/mtd.h      |    1 +
> >  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > index a5f872e..3093067 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > @@ -2224,7 +2224,7 @@ int nand_erase_nand(struct mtd_info *mtd, struct
> > erase_info *instr,
> > 
> >  		/*
> >  		
> >  		 * heck if we have a bad block, we do not erase bad blocks !
> >  		 */
> > 
> > -		if (nand_block_checkbad(mtd, ((loff_t) page) <<
> > +		if (!instr->scrub && nand_block_checkbad(mtd, ((loff_t) page) <<
> > 
> >  					chip->page_shift, 0, allowbbt)) {
> >  			
> >  			printk(KERN_WARNING "nand_erase: attempt to erase a "
> >  			
> >  			       "bad block at page 0x%08x\n", page);
> 
> Changelog should describe why the existing mechanism of overriding the
> block_bad method is insufficient (I think there may be issues if you try
> to scrub before the bbt is first built) -- and if this supersedes that
> mechanism, that mechanism should be removed.

Indeed, this completely ignores the BBT, unlike the previous way. From my 
understanding, scrub should behave this way, right ?

> 
> -Scott