[PATCH 05/21] mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Add driver-specific ECC BCH support

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Thu Oct 17 18:27:03 EDT 2013


Brian,

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:27:13PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
[..]
> 
> Speaking of that: how do you deal with bad block markers, if your data
> is actually placed in what is traditionally the "spare area"?
> 

We currently don't deal with this :(

I'll be sending a v2 soon to address many of the issues you brought
and to re-work the ECC mode 'choice' to be safer.

I'll post the open issues in the v2 cover-letter, and this factory bad block
thing will be among them.
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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