mtd nand erase and bad block

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 10:37:12 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 16:05 +0100, Angus CLARK wrote:
> So, are you suggesting that I implement a MEMBBSCRUB ioctl, with a flag to
> indicate whether or not the BBTs should be updated (and some extra padding for
> future-proofing)?  Might have think about what happens when called on blocks
> reserved for the BBTs...

First of all, implement only what you really need and can test. Do not
try to implement too much of stuff you do not really need. Yes, the
above sounds good. And the BBT eraseblocks are not (and should not) be
directly accessible for erasure/scrubbing.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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