linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: kill MTD_NAND_VERIFY

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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:23:19 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: kill MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 22:38 -0400, Huang Shijie wrote:
> Just as Artem suggested:
> 
> "Both UBI and JFFS2 are able to read verify what they wrote already.
> There are also MTD tests which do this verification. So I think there
> is no reason to keep this in the NAND layer, let alone wasting RAM in
> the driver to support this feature."
> 
> So kill MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE entirely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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