[U-Boot] [PATCH] NAND: Really ignore bad blocks when scrubbing

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Aug 19 23:55:30 CEST 2011


On 08/19/2011 04:47 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Friday, August 19, 2011 10:08:33 PM Scott Wood wrote:
>> Changelog should describe why the existing mechanism of overriding the
>> block_bad method is insufficient (I think there may be issues if you try
>> to scrub before the bbt is first built) -- and if this supersedes that
>> mechanism, that mechanism should be removed.
> 
> Indeed, this completely ignores the BBT, unlike the previous way. From my 
> understanding, scrub should behave this way, right ?

Yes.  This is a more straightforward approach, but the changelog should
explain why the change is being made, and the patch should remove the
nand_block_bad_scrub() hack that is now unnecessary.

-Scott



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