[PATCH] UBI: add minimal amount of reserved erase blocks in Kconfig

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 11:07:02 EDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 16:57 +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
> 2012/6/29 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com>:
> >> I was thinking that instead of giving to ubiattach the MBB, we could
> >> give it the MBB percentage (maximum bad blocks percentage of the whole
> >> flash device).
> >> From this % and the whole flash size, we get the MBB number, and set
> >> beb_rsvd_level for each MTD part.
> >
> > Well, I thought that it may be not flexible enough for some people,
> > because you cannot give 1.5%, since flaoting-point arithmetic in the
> > kernel is not used.
> So there's 2 ways to bypass that :
> - use per-1024 instead of percent => the default value would be 20.
> - let ubiattach do the conversion from MBB% to MBB
> I like the 1st one because it gives a number close to what we have in
> the datasheets.
> What do you think ?

Yeah, probably, centi-percents would be OK.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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