[PATCH] mtd: nand: Use the mirror BBT descriptor when reading its version

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 11:41:41 EDT 2012


On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 20:52 +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> > UBI does not do anything about storing the bad block table. UBI relies
> > on the MTD layer - it may mark a block as bad and MTD should take care
> > of storing this information either in the OOB or in the BBT on in both
> > places.
> Urg ... I was under the impression UBI stored that information in its control
> data, too bad for me ...

No, UBI calls 'mtd_block_markbad()' and relies on MTD marking the block
as bad - either by writing to OOB or using a bad block table.

> > There is no DoC maintainer, you can consider yourself to be the
> > maintainer, because you and Mike are the only people who care about this
> > AFAICS.
> Same as Mike, I don't have the hardware. If somebody has some spare hardware to
> provide, I'd gladly take over the maintenership.

I do not have any HW with those, unfortunately.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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