[RFC] mtd: nand: Fix bad block identification issue

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 09:12:24 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 20:30 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 17:39 +0530, Saxena, Parth wrote:
> > This patch solves the above issue for omap by initialising
> > badblockbits. We are working further on this to find a generic fix
> > to the problem in nand_base.c.
> 
> But it looks like the generic solution is to return the line which was
> accidentally removed, how about this patch
> 
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:26:59 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] mtd: return badblockbits back
> 
> In commit c7b28e25cb9beb943aead770ff14551b55fa8c79 the initialization of
> the backblockbits was accidentally removed. This patch returns it back,
> because otherwise some NAND drivers are broken.
> 
> This problem was reported by "Saxena, Parth <parth.saxena at ti.com>" here:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-April/035221.html
> 
> Reported-by: Saxena, Parth <parth.saxena at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
> Cc: stable at kernel.org [2.6.36+]
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Any ack/nack/tested-by?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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