dangerous NAND_BBT_SCANBYTE1AND6

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Tue Apr 26 03:30:02 EDT 2011


On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Matthieu CASTET wrote:

>> So I bet
>> your device is actually an x8 device and so the 1st/6th byte pattern is
>> correct. I think the fact that this conflicts with your ECC patterns is
>> something you must deal with.
> I don't agree, that's a big mtd regression. If you update your kernel on such
> flash, you brick it.

I agree, even if the behavior may have been incorrect in the past, we 
should think very carefully about changing this for exactly this reason.

/Ricard
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