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