[PATCH 0/2] allow scrubbing (erasing of bad blocks)

[Marc Reilly]

Hi,


On Thursday, December 13, 2012 05:18:20 PM Wolfram Sang wrote:
> This patch series first adds a flag to mtd devices which disables special
> treatment for bad blocks. That means, they are handled like every other good
> block. The second one then adds a scrub command which is basically a simple
> erase, only that bad blocks are treated like good blocks and are trying to
> be erased (which may succeed or not). This is really *not recommended*,
> except for certain development use cases!


Much nicer than the hacks I did to clear the BBT !

(unfortunately, don't have any boards that I can test on at the moment).

Cheers,
Marc

> 
> Wolfram Sang (2):
>   mtd: nand: add flag to allow erasing of bad blocks
>   commands: add scrub
> 
>  commands/Kconfig              |    8 +++++
>  commands/flash.c              |   68
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/mtd/core.c            |  
>  9 +++++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_write.c |   37 +++++++++++-----------
>  include/linux/mtd/mtd-abi.h   |    2 ++
>  5 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)