[PATCH v5 00/14] Armada 370/XP NAND support

[Brian Norris]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:22:26PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Now, why does NAND reserve eight blocks, if there are only two tables?
> Well, you'll be able to find this in the driver:
> 
> static struct nand_bbt_descr bbt_main_descr = {
> 	/* stuff */
> 	.maxblocks = 8,         /* Last 8 blocks in each chip */
> };
> 
> The snippet above asks the NAND core to scan the last 8 blocks when searching
> for the in-flash bad block table. The NAND core will also reserve these
> 8 blocks as the maximum amount of blocks that can be used to store a bad
> block table (I guess that's in case one block gets 'really' bad).

That doesn't reflect mainline, where you'll see:

static struct nand_bbt_descr bbt_main_descr = {
...
        .maxblocks = NAND_BBT_SCAN_MAXBLOCKS,
...
};

Where NAND_BBT_SCAN_MAXBLOCKS == 4.

Do you have local modifications that make .maxblocks = 8?

Brian