How to count NAND bad block from user space?

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, navigator.atreides at gmail.com wrote:

> I want to count number of the bad blocks on the nand device, so being
> inspired by ~/mtd/util/flash_eraseall.c I used follow call
>
> int ret = ioctl(fd, MEMGETBADBLOCK, &offset);
>
> as badness measure for block ( if (ret > 0) ).
>
> Could you please point me out if I'm on the right way?
> ...

Without having tried the code, looks good to me.

/Ricard
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