oobavail issues

Matthew Reimer mreimer at vpop.net
Fri Apr 1 12:27:47 EST 2005


On Friday 01 April 2005 12:23 am, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 10:29 -0800, Matthew Reimer wrote:
> > > I will fix this. But I still wonder why you hit this problem with
> > > JFFS2. JFFS2 does not provide a filesystem buffer for oob data, so the
> > > memcpy in nand_prepare_oobbuf is never invoked.
> >
> > IIRC it wasn't jffs2 but the MTD_WRITEECC() we were doing to write a
> > kernel to a partition, which we had to do in preparation for mounting
> > jffs2. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Ok. Fixed in CVS. Thanks for pointing this out.

Thanks, looks good!

Matt




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