linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make the mtdblock read/write skip the bad nand sector

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Message-ID: <1385394419.24518.40.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:46:59 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>
Cc:	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>,
	Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>,
	zhouguangming@...ofidei.com,
	Hans Zhang <zhanghonghui@...ofidei.com>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make the mtdblock read/write skip the bad nand sector

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 16:12 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Ezequiel" == Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  > Thanks a lot for the insight. After reading this, I'm wondering what's
>  > preventing us from killing MTD block support altogether. Artem, already
>  > suggested it a while back...
> 
> People using squashfs/cramfs/readonly ext2/.. on a NOR flash?

And people who *still*, after all these years, don't realise that they
don't actually need it to mount JFFS2. Even as the root file system
(although they *do* need rootfstype=jffs2).

-- 
dwmw2


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