NAND bad block checking when no memory based BBT is available

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Apr 26 13:23:24 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:31 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:38 +0200, Knobloch, Thomas wrote:
> > Do you think there is some problem with this code or am I missing some
> > point. 
> 
> Looks entirely screwed in the head to me. Thomas?

Yep, it's screwed. Nobody noticed, as this code path is usually never
taken. I kept it as there was some academic discussion, why not using a
bad block table is superior, but I forgot the details.

Sure it needs the shift as well.

	tglx






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