kernel defconfig, CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE

Gennady Kupava gb at bsdmn.com
Wed Jan 6 18:59:37 CET 2010


Hi, patryk

В Срд, 06/01/2010 в 16:16 +0100, Patryk Benderz пишет:
> > 
> Well, if this test was repeated several times with similar results, it
> might be worth to disable this option IMHO. Only one thing makes me
> dither. Will this be safe? 

I am not 100% sure, as I am not mtd dev, but in other configs have this
option sometimes disabled. also we have some kind of hw ecc.

> I mean, what if there is some software which
> takes advantage of this option? 
> Maybe some kind of software which verifies (using this kernel option) what it writes to device?

no, this is small chuck of code which just reads data after each write i
think if some software depend on it we'll just idetify it and enable
this again.

> Just a thought...
> 

gennady




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