[PATCH] mtd: nand: omap: save Bad-Block-Table (BBT) on device

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar
Wed Jul 23 05:05:10 PDT 2014


Hi Pekon,

On 23 Jul 05:24 PM, Pekon Gupta wrote:
> This patch makes OMAP NAND driver to
> - save Bad-Block-Table (BBT) on NAND Flash device
> - scan on device BBT during probe
> 

Doesn't this break backward compatibility? Please correct me if I'm wrong
here, but if I apply this patch, and boot with my current NAND flash
contents, the kernel won't have any place to store the BBT (assuming
there are no blocks reserved).
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Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar



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