[RFC] the way to proceed with OOB data

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 08:53 +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
> > So, lemme a bit disagree with you, I hope that makes sense a bit :)
> 
> OK, I admit I'm looking at this through YAFFS eyes. YAFFS always writes one 
> page at a time, so this would not be an issue.
> 
> Do any other fs or users write multiple NAND pages at a time? If so how do 
> they handle any failures?

Well, return an error and the number of safely written bytes. The fs
requested n bytes to be written and gets the number of actually written
bytes. It makes not much of a difference to handle such a scenario or
the write per page failure.

	tglx