In message 000001c6a6ca$bd0b3230$a134800a@RudiDell you wrote:
Silently ignoring such errors without even printing a message and setting the return code of the command is not acceptable.
I guess I don't understand what's going on enough then. Is it really an error to come across a bad block? I thought that was part of the deal when
It should at least be reported to the user - otherwise he assumes to have an error-free medium.
using nand chips. If, for example, I want to erase a whole chip, then silently skipping bad blocks seems like the way to go. I could see keeping
No, I think I would want to see reports about unerasable blocks here.
some kind of debug message, but something less severe than KERN_WARNING. Would that make this acceptable?
It should be a regular message, not only debug.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk