[U-Boot-Users] skipping bad blocks when erasing nand

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <44B76ABA.3000607 at fsforth.de> you wrote:
> 
> / # mtd_debug erase /dev/mtd/2 0x22f00000 0x3000000
> nand_erase: attempt to erase a bad block at page 0x0004bf40
> MEMERASE: Input/output error

That's the behaviour I would expect to see from looking at the code.

And what you will see in U-Boot, too - same code, same behaviour.

> I think, bad blocks should not prevent U-Boot from erasing a partition,
> which is needed to write an OS there, which needs to be booted.

I tend to agree here, which was the reason that I said I was  willing
to  accept  the patch, but that at least the printf() shoould be kept
so that the user gets the warning.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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