[PATCH] nandwrite: add --nobad to write bad blocks

[Jon Povey]

linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org wrote:
> it is completely artificial.  as you said yourself, it is "not
> necessarily writable".  that means i should be able to tell the
> hardware "do XXX" and let the hardware do it.  instead, i'm stuck with
> userspace utils that say "no, you cant do that".

As Artem is thinking about it, I'll just chip in with a "me too".

By all means the default should protect you from doing potentially
stupid and dangerous things. But these are low level utilities for
people who know what they are doing, having a "safeties off" option
makes a lot of sense.

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Jon Povey
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