Fwd: Re: JFFS2 NAND support - Mount failure on "good" filesystem

[Joshua Wise]

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<tglx1> joshua_: send a patch to the maillist :)

He asked, so I forwarded his patch.

(this patch adds support for chips that need to be sent a command for each 
page of OOB data requested.)

joshua

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Subject: Re: JFFS2 NAND support - Mount failure on "good" filesystem
Date: Sunday 08 February 2004 4:51 pm
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
To: Joshua Wise <joshua at joshuawise.com>

On Sunday 08 February 2004 20:38, you wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2004 3:58 am, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Seems like you managed to corrupt the OOB area, as all your blocks are
> > marked as bad. Your programming algorithm has to take care of the OOB
> > data ! There are some slightly outdated docs on linux-mtd.infradead.org
>
> My programming algorithm is exactly the same as nandwrite's. I believe that
> the issue is not in JFFS2, but in the NAND driver - do we not need multiple
> pages of OOB data, and does the NAND driver not expect the chip to
> automatically "move on"? My chip seems to be the only NAND chip that does
> not automagically move on to the next page of OOB data...
>
> jwise

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