Restore the bad block flag in OOB of NAND flash
Thomas Gleixner
tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Apr 17 18:20:58 EDT 2003
On Thursday 17 April 2003 22:49, Charles Manning wrote:
>
> One way to achieve what you want is to hack mkyaffs. mkyaffs erases the
> blocks in the partition, but first checks for bad block markers. If you
> comment out the check then it will erase the block regardless. This will
> set all the bits in the block to 1 (including the bad block marker).
Only if you hack drivers/mtd/nand/nand.c too, as there is a senity check,
which refuses to erase bad blocks :)
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Thomas
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