[PATCH resend] Newly erased page read workaround

Artem Bityutskiy Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com
Fri Apr 1 07:30:48 EDT 2011


On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 15:55 +0530, ext Viresh Kumar wrote:
> +		/*
> +		 * This is a temporary erase check. A newly erased page read
> +		 * would result in an ecc error because the oob data is also
> +		 * erased to FF and the calculated ecc for an FF data is not
> +		 * FF..FF.
> +		 * This is a workaround to skip performing correction in case
> +		 * data is FF..FF
> +		 */

Sorry, but still questions.

The comment says this is temporary - why? When and how this going to be
change to become "permanent".

And you still did not add words about the problem with bit-flips.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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