[PATCH] write bad block marker even with BBT

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 14:26:25 EDT 2010


Sorry for being PITA, but

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 10:38 +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> +
> +	/* Write the bad block marker if we don't have BBT, or driver
> +	 * request it (in case the bootloader doesn't support reading it
> +	 * or we loose BBT).
> +	 */

Still not proper comment :-)

> +	if (!(chip->options & NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT) || chip->options & NAND_WRITE_BB) {
>  		nand_get_device(chip, mtd, FL_WRITING);
>  
>  		/* Write to first two pages and to byte 1 and 6 if necessary.
> diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> index 102e12c..2efd2f9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> @@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ typedef enum {
>  #define NAND_OWN_BUFFERS	0x00040000
>  /* Chip may not exist, so silence any errors in scan */
>  #define NAND_SCAN_SILENT_NODEV	0x00080000
> +/* in case of NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT, write also bad block marker */
> +#define NAND_WRITE_BB	0x00100000

I think the comment should be a bit more descriptive and tell that this
is about using BBT _and_ writing BB marker to OOB area. Use proper
comment style, start with capital letter.

Also, add a BUG_ON to catch misuse cases when NAND_WRITE_BB is used
without NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT - they should go in pair.

And also, how about cases when BBT is updated, but OOB did not because
of a power cut :-)) ?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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