Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755754Ab0HIIhp (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 04:37:45 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:40895 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751484Ab0HIIho (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 04:37:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quick erase format option From: David Woodhouse To: "stefani@seibold.net" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , Artem Bityutskiy , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Artem Bityutskiy In-Reply-To: <1281342353-18180-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net> References: <1281342353-18180-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:37:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1281343038.12908.25.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.31.6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 24 On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 09:25 +0100, stefani@seibold.net wrote: > From: Stefani Seibold > > This patch add a quick format option which skips erasing of already erased > flash blocks. This is useful for first time production environments where > the flash arrived erased. > > Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold This scares me, given the lengths we had to go to in JFFS2 to cope with blocks which *look* like they're erased, but which actually start losing data as soon as you start writing to them because the erase didn't complete. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/