Block numbers of BEB

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, Woody Wu wrote:

> >The information is available to userspace though, so it's fairly easy
> >to 
> >hack together a userspace tool that gets the bad block information via 
> >ioctls.
> 
> Do you know in what kernel .c file that contain the information?  Is it 
> in mtd or ubi?

There is an ioctl called MEMGETBADBLOCK which returns information about 
the bad block status of a given (physical) flash block.

See include/uapi/mtd/mtd-api.h in the kernel for details.

/Ricard
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