[PATCH] [JFFS2] Make NAND OOB usage more flexible
Artem B. Bityutskiy
dedekind at yandex.ru
Thu Jan 5 07:49:52 EST 2006
Juha Yrjölä wrote:
> Many (if not all) OneNAND devices have the free OOB bytes scattered
> around the whole OOB area in blocks of 2 or 3 bytes. To work around
> this, the JFFS2 wbuf code needs to consider _all_ the free OOB bytes
> specified by the oobfree array.
Hello Juha,
actually, Vitaly recently sent a patch wich handles this more
gracefully. It basically adds an MTD interface which presents free OOB
bytes to users as a (virtually) contiguous buffer.
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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
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