[Yaffs] cvs YAFFS + MTD cvs + 2.4.27-vrs1 problems

[Thomas Gleixner]

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