mtd nand erase and bad block

[Tomer Barletz]

On 06/14/2012 10:48 AM, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Artem Bityutskiy<dedekind1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 17:54 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
>>>
>>> My personal preference would be:
>>> 1. A new ioctl (MEMSCRUB?)
>>> 2. debugfs flag, PER MTD PART (slightly safer than your global flag)
>>> 3. global debugfs flag
>>>
>> Yes, I guess option 1 is the best I think. Option 2 needs too much work.
>
> Just to put my 2 cents in and revive this thread: I'm also interested
> in this kind of feature. I personally recompile to disable bad block
> tables temporarily whenever I need to reset a flash-based BBT or
> unmark a "bad block." But this isn't always so easy for others I deal
> with, so I'm all for a feature that can be used by a
> relatively-inexperienced user to reset bad block tables, erase bad
> block markers, etc.
>
> I like the idea of an ioctl (option 1), since that does not require
> recompilation (even in the event that debugfs wasn't enabled) and can
> be built into a user-space tool, with appropriate warnings and
> prompting for the user, of course. The debugfs ideas seem a little bit
> too manual to be useful for anyone but a true driver/kernel developer
> and also a little bit too unsafe (a user may want to target a specific
> block without disabling bad block checking for all chips or even for
> the entire partition).
>
> FWIW, a similar topic was brought up a long time back, with little result:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2010-October/032577.html
>
> So Angus, are you going to code this?
>

Isn't Jon's patch match option number 1?

--Tomer