[PATCH v2] mtd: nand: write bad block marker even with BBT

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 15:49:54 EST 2011


On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 10:17 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > I use BBT because I
> > have no room left in OOB or updating a single area in OOB is too
> > complicated / hardly possible.
> > In the former case, reading that area again and interpreting it as
> > something as it was once is a bad thing.
> 
> Well, then that is one case where you want an option to avoid writing
> to markers back to OOB. We may need an option flag to enforce the old
> behavior. 

I guess there should be some way of detecting this case (no space in
OOB) and just not writing.

Artem.




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