Re: [Yaffs] cvs YAFFS + MTD cvs + 2.4.27-vrs1 problems

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Author: Thomas Gleixner
Date:  
To: Charles Manning
CC: Nick Bane, Aras Vaichas, YAFFS
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] cvs YAFFS + MTD cvs + 2.4.27-vrs1 problems
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:16 +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
> > Why ? The nand driver provides write verify and tells you when it
> > failed.
>
> When I write the deletion markers or bad block marking I don't want to use
> verification.
>
> When you program NAND, writing 0xFF does not mean "set this to 0xFF" it means
> "don't do anything to these bytes". The verifying does not work this way.
> Perhaps it would be nice to have a flag to apply or ignore verification.


Yeah, did not think about that.

You need this for oob writes only, right ?

It should be not a big problem to make this runtime enabled. Will look
into this.

tglx