[PATCH 1/4] mtd: nand: erase block before marking bad

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 18:11 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> Many NAND flash systems (especially those with MLC NAND) cannot be
> reliably written twice in a row. For instance, when marking a bad block,
> the block may already have data written to it, and so we should attempt
> to erase the block before writing a bad block marker to its OOB region.
> 
> We can ignore erase failures, since the block may be bad such that it
> cannot be erased properly; we still attempt to write zeros to its spare
> area.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>

All four look good, pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks.

What are your plans WRT marking blocks as bad both in the OOB and the
table?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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