linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] UBI: use the whole MTD device size to get bad_peb

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:00:11 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>
Cc:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] UBI: use the whole MTD device size to get
 bad_peb_limit

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 10:13 +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
> > +         To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try
> to reserve
> > +         about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
> handling. And that
> > +         will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire NAND chip, not
> just the MTD
> > +         partition UBI attaches. This means that if you have, say,
> if a NAND
> I don't quite understand this sentence.
> Maybe you meant:
> This means that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip that admits a
> maximum of 40 bad eraseblocks [...]
> (but I'm not a native english speaker !)

Fixed, thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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