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[Artem B. Bityutskiy]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> - [MTD] NAND: OOB changes
> 	Needs more thoughts. I'm particularly unhappy with the introduction of new 
> functions and the still pending problem of the automatic placement/retrieval 
> of oob data. The change should subsume and/or extend the oob_info 
> functionality rather than introducing a parallel solution.

As for me, the ideal would be to have:
1. a method to fetch the number of OOB bytes available for user;
2. a method of read/write a buffer of that length to/from OOB; that 
space may be non-contiguous, but this should be hidden from the user.

Complications like the need to supply oob_info look unreasonable to me. 
Most (may be all?) people don't care about the OOB layout and just want 
to read/write data from/to it. So, I agree with Charles.

Any example of when users want to know the oob layout? May be nanddump 
utilities? Not sure.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.