From patchwork Mon Oct 25 08:38:59 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: write bad block marker even with BBT Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:38:59 -0000 From: Matthieu CASTET X-Patchwork-Id: 69078 Message-Id: <4CC54223.2050401@parrot.com> To: linux-mtd Add a new flag to force writing bad block marker if we use bad block table. This allow to solve problem where bootloader don't support reading BBT. Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c index ddffe76..4d79a8d 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ static int nand_default_block_markbad(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t ofs) { struct nand_chip *chip = mtd->priv; uint8_t buf[2] = { 0, 0 }; - int block, ret, i = 0; + int block, ret = 0, i = 0; if (chip->options & NAND_BBT_SCANLASTPAGE) ofs += mtd->erasesize - mtd->writesize; @@ -409,7 +409,12 @@ static int nand_default_block_markbad(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t ofs) /* Do we have a flash based bad block table ? */ if (chip->options & NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT) ret = nand_update_bbt(mtd, ofs); - else { + + /* Write the bad block marker if we don't have BBT, or driver + * request it (in case the bootloader doesn't support reading it + * or we loose BBT). + */ + if (!(chip->options & NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT) || chip->options & NAND_WRITE_BB) { nand_get_device(chip, mtd, FL_WRITING); /* Write to first two pages and to byte 1 and 6 if necessary. diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h index 102e12c..2efd2f9 100644 --- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h +++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h @@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ typedef enum { #define NAND_OWN_BUFFERS 0x00040000 /* Chip may not exist, so silence any errors in scan */ #define NAND_SCAN_SILENT_NODEV 0x00080000 +/* in case of NAND_USE_FLASH_BBT, write also bad block marker */ +#define NAND_WRITE_BB 0x00100000 /* Options set by nand scan */ /* Nand scan has allocated controller struct */