Is there a minimal size requirement for oobfree area?

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:10 -0500, Kevin Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to understand if there is a size requirement for the
> oobfree area. For the 512-byte nand flash, does the oobfree area have
> to be at least 8 bytes?

No, there is no real requirement. The oob area is not mandatory for
JFFS2. If you want to use YAFFS, it is AFAIK.

	tglx